The US is experiencing an unprecedented drought, worse than March 1934.
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/monitoring-content/sotc/drought/psi/psi-202603.png
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/monitoring-content/sotc/drought/psi/psi-193403.png
Utah is experiencing their worst drought in any month.
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/cirs/climdiv/climdiv-pdsidv-v1.0.0-20240606
Streamflow in many rivers across the southeastern US and Mid-Atlantic is lowest on record.
USGS | National Water Dashboard
At the current rate of decline, Glen Canyon Dam will no longer be able to generate electricity in about eleven months. It provides electricity for almost six million people.
https://lakepowell.water-data.com/
Only one marina at Lake Powell is still usable, and it only has 6-8 weeks of usability left.
https://lakepowell.water-data.com/
The lake has lost eight feet of water since the end of January
Wahweap Main Launch Ramp Webcam (U.S. National Park Service)
Snowpack is at a record low across most of the west.
The San Juan Mountains are normally the snowiest in Colorado, and snow peaks there in mid-April. This year there is almost no snow.
Temperatures at Imperial, Nebraska (and most other places in the west) have been far above normal almost every day. So far this year, afternoon temperatures have been twelve degrees above the average since 1895.
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/all/USC00254110.dly
Corpus Christi, Texas is almost out of water.
From five years ago :
“A Bill Gates Venture Aims To Spray Dust Into The Atmosphere To Block The Sun. What Could Go Wrong?”
A Bill Gates Venture Aims To Spray Dust Into The Atmosphere To Block The Sun. What Could Go Wrong?
Since most of Lake Powells electricity generation is for California and at a big discount but when the lake reduces power production it has to buy power from somewhere else, guess who has to make up the difference in cost.