the other mike
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Literally just a few days before, they were predicting snowless winters in the US western states --throughout the media, .....this was the big environmental headline (regarding the effects of 'climate chage' ) ...
www.wired.com
And then this happened....
www.theguardian.com
![www.wired.com](https://media.wired.com/photos/61bbd3fd40d65a3f62ee4a97/191:100/w_1280,c_limit/Science_Climatedesk_GettyImages-1348312146.jpg)
The US Mountain West Could Soon Face Snowless Winters
Parts of Colorado, Utah, California, and the Pacific Northwest could be without snow for years at a time in just a few decades.
And then this happened....
![www.theguardian.com](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7e5b71ddd2b1c61a084fe02eb25a3d113e4fdd69/0_2654_4480_2688/master/4480.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctYWdlLTIwMjEucG5n&enable=upscale&s=c849344b151c84ba35e45a1c8e18d2ff)
Western US states hit by record freeze and heavy snow
Severe weather brings record low temperatures in Washington and Oregon and huge snowfalls in California and Nevada