Record Snowpacks Could Threaten Western States

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Record Snowpacks Could Threaten Western States



STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. â€" For all the attention on epic flooding in the Mississippi Valley, a quiet threat has been growing here in the West where winter snows have piled up on mountain ranges throughout the region.

Thanks to a blizzard-filled winter and an unusually cold and wet spring, more than 90 measuring sites from Montana to New Mexico and California to Colorado have record snowpack totals on the ground for late May, according to a federal report released last week.

Full Article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/22/us/22snow.html?ref=earth