Snowfall Declines in Utah

The proportion of precipitation that falls as snow in Utah from January through March has decreased by 9 percent over the past 50 years due to rising temperatures, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Climate. The authors also found that the number of storms with the potential to produce precipitation has decreased, even though the total amount of winter precipitation has increased. This suggests that each storm event produces more precipitation than it has in the past, and that more of this precipitation is falling as rain than snow.