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Both Warm and Dry Snow Drought Persist Across the West

Snow drought impacts have intensified as snow melted weeks early this spring.

Combined poor peak snowpack and/or rapid spring melt rates lead to western drought expansion and degradation.

Snow drought and early, accelerated snowmelt raise concerns as we head into summer.

Snow drought conditions remain over much of the Southwest U.S., Sierra Nevada, and Rocky Mountains.

Recent storms bring some snow drought relief, but below-normal snowpack remains.