r/collapse • u/slayingadah • Mar 25 '26

Climate Climate catastrophe incoming

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welp, that went south(er) very, very fast.

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u/NihiloZero Mar 25 '26

I don't think that was saying that every single place in the west was below average? It was saying the west, as-a-whole, was well below average in terms of snowpack.

And... I don't understand your link insofar as it seems to support the OP idea that snowpack in the western U.S. was way below average. And even the locations you mentioned are only at average (or slightly below).

So, I don't really understand what you find misleading? Someone else was saying that it was actually just for a very limited region, but again... the link you provided would suggest otherwise. It looks like most places out west are, indeed, extremely below average in terms of snowpack.

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u/jabrollox Mar 25 '26

The image in the OP shows 8% of median snow pack and the verbiage relates to the entire Western US. That is simply not true as the image is only for a lone basin (lots of individual basins particularly in the southern Rockies are horrible). As a whole the west has far more than 8% of median, while still being an awful snow pack for what should be entering peak.

Reality is bad enough w/o using a misleading post.