Editorial: Startlingly low snowpack this fall bodes poorly for water supply
November brought unusually warm temperatures in Las Vegas and elsewhere in the Mountain West, which made for some lovely fall days. But not for our water supply. Those warm temperatures that made for shirt-sleeve conditions in Las Vegas and much of the Southwest were murder on the snowpack that feeds the region’s rivers. In an example of how climate change is threatening the viability of the West, the region emerged from November with lower-than-average snowpack in every one of its river basins, particularly in the Southwest.