As we wait to see whether El Niño will indeed bring increased winter precipitation to the Southwest, we’ve chosen what we hope will prove to be a timely topic for this month’s END InSight newsletter - the importance of snowpack to water supplies in the Southwest (a subject that may cause you to dream even more of a white Christmas!). The newsletter also contains an article written directly in response to questions that some of our stakeholders have raised regarding the lack of spatial specificity of the forecasting products. Many of the recent conditions reports and forecasts are based on data averaged over climate divisions; thus we explain what climate divisions are, why they are used, and the pros and cons of their application to different situations.
End InSight November 2002
Published by the Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS), with support from University of Arizona Cooperative Extension, the Arizona State Climate Office, and the New Mexico State Climate office.
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