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Data Dump: Permadrought

Climate change, yukigata, and another dry year in the Southwest

Jonathan P. Thompson
Apr 2, 2021
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For four decades, my grandparents ran a farm in the Animas Valley north of Durango, Colorado. They knew when it was time to put out the tomatoes they had started indoors not by looking at the calendar, but by keeping an eye each spring on a particular northerly facing slope on Missionary Ridge. When the snow was all melted from the slope, the threat of …

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