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Harsh Drought Is Drying Up New Mexico’s Largest Reservoir
Posted by Atlantic Cities: John Metcalfe on July 30th, 2013
Atlantic Cities: Right now, El Paso’s drier than an cow bone baking in the Chihuahuan Desert, and an important source of water for drinking and farming has shrunk into the sandy puddle you see below. The vast desolation of the Elephant Butte Reservoir – named so not because of the presence of pachyderms, but due to a hump in the landscape vaguely shaped like a hulking animal – is a weighty concern for residents of El Paso, who get about half their water from it. During flush times in the late 1980s and ’90s, the...
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Comments Off on Harsh Drought Is Drying Up New Mexico’s Largest ReservoirClimate Change in the Southeastern U.S. Could Mean Endless Severe Thunderstorms
Posted by Atlantic Cities: John Metcalfe on April 8th, 2013
Atlantic Cities: Scientists who probe the atmosphere is search of tomorrow's weather have already picked up signs of major heat waves looming for American cities, particularly eastern 'burgs like Boston, Baltimore, and Philadelphia.
Now NASA is giving us a heads-up that residents of yet more cities might soon face increased risks of getting frizzled by lightning or charley-horsed by walnut-sized hailstones. The space agency has released new weather models based on a 2007 study by Purdue University's Robert Trapp,...
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