April is the cruelest month (to the snowpack)

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Sprinkler, sky, snowy field. Jonathan P. Thompson photo.

🥵 Aridification Watch 🐫

What a difference a warm, dusty month can make. 

In early April, the Land Desk reported that the snowpack in most of the Southwest was at or above normal, and appeared to be peaking right on schedule, presaging a normal spring runoff. But April turned out to be the cruelest…