These images from space show how much the reservoirs and lakes of the West have dried up

[RV_]

These are great! But you need to be online to slide the slider in the middle I think. Just grab the slider by left clicking then holding and sliding. To the right shows 2021, all the way to the left shows four years ago in 2017:

Excerpt:

"Satellite views four years apart from a chronicler of the world's largest lakes show the startling effects of the Western mega-drought.

A self-described lakes geek currently living in the European Union likes to teach people about their wild surroundings by creating before-and-after views of the world’s great bodies of water, using satellite photos taken years apart. Catalin Trif and his lakepedia.com site compile a wealth of information about big lakes, and he reached out to The Colorado Sun after a seemingly unending series of Western drought stories caught his eye.

Trif’s picture comparisons allow you to slide right and see how the 22nd year of “megadrought” in the West is draining reservoirs and revealing ancient land formations not seen for decades. Slide left on the pictures below and restore your favorite Lake Powell boating bay or Blue Mesa picnic shore."

See the pics here:

https://coloradosun.com/2021/09/06/western-drought-biggest-lakes-dry-up/?mc_cid=0279bd7d57&mc_eid=03b760e72e

 

[Kirk W]

Prized trout streams shrink as heat, drought grip US West

[RV_]

Warming rivers in US West killing fish, imperiling industry

https://apnews.com/article/business-environment-and-nature-fish-climate-change-5c85e86a2ba18171ca55d5de8f89dea3

[Vladimir]

READ this book....it is published by University of California Press.  The author BELIEVES in man-caused climate change.

BUT it is a climate history of the west over the past 10,000 years.  Natural climate change that is the focus of this book.

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520286009/the-west-without-water

The last 100 years in the West have been much wetter and milder than historical.  

IF we are back to NORMAL, not good news for California and the southwest.