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November 8, 2016
Computer Model Tracking Precipitation Makes The News
University of Utah and iUTAH researcher Court Strong was recently featured in the news. Fox 13 News recently revisited a report prepared for Governor Huntsman a decade ago that made some predictions about warming in Utah.
An excerpt from the TV news story said that “a third prediction in the report was that more precipitation would fall as rain instead of snow. Dr. Court Strong, a professor at the University of Utah, uses high-tech computer models to track precipitation. ‘At some of the lower elevations we do see a decline in the snowpack,’ he said. His research indicates we are still in the beginning stages of this transition. But because of warming, less precipitation comes as snow. Once it's on the ground, the snow that does fall melts earlier and faster.”
Revisiting each prediction showed that the decade-old report has come true as Utah continues to see bigger storms, warmer temperatures, less snow, and compromised water quality that will continue.
Press: Fox 13 News
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