‘Snow-eater’ heat waves are melting western U.S snowpack twice as fast. Since 1850, the study found the area covered by these heat waves has grown by roughly 102,000 square kilometers per century, and they're now arriving about a month earlier in the year than they did in the mid-1800s.
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'Snow-eater' heat waves are melting western snowpack twice as fast, study finds
Scientists have a new name for a weather pattern reshaping how the West gets its water: so-called "snow-eater" heat waves.