Snowfall Records from the 1800s Fall In Nevada & California - Just As A New Bogus Study Claims "No Snow" In 35 Years

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https://electroverse.net/snowfall-records-from-the-1800s-fall-in-nevada-california-just-as-new-bogus-study-claims-no-snow-in-35-years/

"A parched Western U.S. has been buffeted by heavy precipitation this week, precipitation which fell as record-breaking snow across the region’s higher elevations as storm systems collided with descending Arctic air.

... snow has buffeted California’s Sierra Nevada this week, with as much as 8 feet has accumulating along the mountain chain, busting regional records.

However, as the storm tracked east and entered the state of Nevada, it took out a number of historic snowfall records for the time of year.

Snow fell across Nevada on Tuesday ... impressive totals were registered elsewhere, though, including in the central Nevada towns of Ely, Eureka, Winnemucca and Tonopah, which all smashed snowfall records.

Winnemucca reported 5.5 inches of snow as of early Monday evening — a reading which broke the town’s previous all-time record for the date, the 3.4 inches set way back in 1889.

Ely logged 3.3 inches, with a water equivalent of .48 of an inch — this was almost double the old record set in 2012.

And Eureka’s 0.30 of an inch may seem paltry, but it’s still three times the previous record, which was set just last year, in 2020.

... despite incessant claims of a “never-ending drought”, this week’s precipitation demonstrates, once again, that you should not make such grand calls when it comes to the climate

— California's water levels have now bounced “back to slightly above normal,” said David Gomberg, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard.

... As well as the historic accumulations seen in Nevada, the storm has also dumped as much as 8 feet of snow between the Lake Tahoe area and Mammoth Mountain,

and as much as 4 feet in the mountains around L.A. County — totals the Sierra Avalanche Center warn are overloading the existing snowpack, increasing the likelihood of “very wide avalanches”.

Laughably, these healthy falls have arrived hot on the heels of a new study which claims snow in the Sierras could be all-but gone in just a few short decades, which would result in disaster for California’s water supply.

Should greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated, the study goes, winters of low snow, or even no snow, could become a regular occurrence in as little as 35 years.

But as is the case with all modern climate research, the study is built entirely on the presumption that Earth is warming in line with increasing atmospheric CO2 levels–there now being no other way to obtain funding.

The paper states that increasing temperatures will mean more precipitation falling as rain instead of snow, “and rain has less water storage potential than its colder counterpart,” points out Alan Rhoades, a hydroclimate research scientist and co-author of the study.

... Only later in the paper do the researchers reveal that their findings were primarily based on “a high-emission scenario that is not yet inevitable”, and even less ink is given to the genuine problems re California’s water supply: management.

... The projections of no snow “are a little bit shocking,” said scientist Rhoades of the study’s findings.

“As a kid who grew up in the Sierra, it’s kind of hard to fathom a low- to no-snow future.”