Ice on the Kuskokwim River at Bethel, Alaska moved enough to carry the tripod downriver and trip the clock at 840am Wednesday May 8. This is ten days earlier than last year and very close to the modern average date of break-up, but is almost a week earlier than the pre-1990 average. #akwx#Climate#Hydrology @Climatologist49
Break-up on the Yukon River at Dawson, YT occurred on on the afternoon of April 28. This was the fourth earliest break-up since 1896: only 1940, 2016 and 2019 were earlier. Typical break-up nowdays is more than a week earlier than it was in the early to mid 20th century. #ytwx#Canada#YukonRiver#hydrology#Climate@Climatologist49@evaholland
The Tanana River at Nenana is showing a lot of melt water on top of the ice Tuesday early afternoon. Continued mild weather this week ensures it will be an early break-up this year, but remember, the tripod has to move 100 feet to trip the clock. Image courtesy Nenana Ice Classic. #akwx#Spring2024#hydrology
💧wetter than average in most of western Europe, regions of Scandinavia and north-western Russia;
💧predominantly drier than average in the rest of Europe.
💧 wetter than average in most of western Europe, regions of Scandinavia and north-western Russia;
💧 predominantly drier than average in the rest of Europe.
April 1 snowpack snow water equivalent as a percent of 1991-2020 median in/around Alaska from ERA5 Land courtesy of ECMWF/Copernicus. Most of Alaska snowpack is near to above normal with a small exception in the central Interior and a larger exception in central and southern Southeast. In Canada, much of northern BC, NW Alberta and western NWT snowpack is far below typical for this point in the season. #akwx#ytwx#ntwx#Arctic#SnowPack#Hydrology#Wildfire @Climatologist49@DeniseGutzmer
Lifeblood
Re-enchanting the hydrologic cycle by Markael Luterra Mar 21
"...The inflow, the concentration of water from evaporation into weather systems, is invisible, dynamic, ever changing – the arteries in the sky from the everywhere sunlight-heart to the tissues of the land. The outflow, the movement from capillaries into veins, the concentration of water from the landscape through creeks into ever-larger and ever-more-powerful rivers, is so central to our story as to have defined the locations of our cities and the boundaries of our nations. Rivers grind mountains to pebbles and eventually to dust, carry minerals raised by volcanoes & tectonic collisions to be deposited across fertile floodplains. Rivers are both barriers to our movement, boundaries to our wanderings, and conduits for commerce, for salmon migrations, for canoes riding the currents borne of everywhere upstream, carrying stories & stones & sturgeon..."
Am at the first #OpenET applications conference, with another 200+ water folks. Won't be live-tooting too much, but a few bits will trickle out because I'm excited to support this great community focused on using open to meet the deep challenge of climate adaptation.
One of the most spectacular things happening on earth right now, widely unnoticed by the broad public, is the #ocean#temperatures going wild since 2023. This has massive effects on the global hydrological cycle due to the excess evaporation. // #hydrology#globalwarming#climatechange#climate