by Becca Frazier | Aug 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
In the west, “cloud seeding” is helping make it rain in the part of the country that needs it most. Not new, but being improved, cloud seeding was first introduced in the 1940s. When it’s performed by airplanes, “silver iodide, various salts, or...
by Becca Frazier | Jul 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
La Niña is here to stay. Like a guest that has overstayed their welcome, this (theoretically) annual meteorological pattern just can’t take a hint. For the first time since 1999-2001, La Niña is in its third straight year. How La Niña works: La Niña is characterized...
by Travis Martin | Feb 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
The American West is enduring its worst drought in 1,200 years (that’s not a typo). A series of record-breaking winter storms gave many high hopes that the drought’s end was in sight. But January and February have still been drier than any others in California’s...
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by Travis Martin | Jan 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
Major winter storms might have rampaged through the U.S. recently, but California is seeing the sunny side. The storms left behind serious snowfall, pulling much of the state out of “exceptional drought” levels. A helpful holiday gift to ag producers...
by Travis Martin | Sep 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
Desperately dry conditions across North America are driving ranchers to sell off their cattle—leaving their futures in question. Cashing out cows is an effort to cut back on mouths to feed from land that’s too dry to graze or yielding disappointing hay crops. In some...
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