Snow surveys taking place across the West this week are offering a grim prognosis, after a historically warm winter and searing March heat left the critical snowpack at record-low levels.

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‘On a whole other level’: rapid snow melt-off in American west stuns scientists

Experts say brutal March heat has left critical snowpack at record-low levels – and key basins in uncharted territory

the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)