Fewer April Showers for U.S. Southwest as Climate Changes
Thursday, September 4, 2008 - 13:28
in Earth & Climate
The already parched U.S. Southwest is drying up even more, at least in early spring, because of climate change. A new study in Geophysical Research Letters shows that since 1978, the jet stream that brings rainstorms from the Pacific over the western U.S. has been shifting northward--and so has the rain and snow. [More]