Kirk Sigler

Exactly.

You know, we rely on a healthy snowpack to slowly melt into our huge reservoirs where it's stored to get us through the dry summers.

It's a good question.

I mean, you look at photos of the mountains around Lake Tahoe right now, and it's kind of like back to where they were right around Christmas, brown hillsides.

Here in Boise, I'm looking at the mountains behind the studio here, and they don't look much better.

The local ski area, Bogus Basin, is closing.

Same with Snow Basin in Utah and Sierra Tahoe.

I mean, this is weeks early.

And the news isn't much better when you look at rivers.

According to the U.S.

Drought Monitor, every single river basin in the West has experienced its warmest or second warmest winter on record.

Now, some of coastal California was a bit of a bright spot.

They did get a lot of rain this winter, which I asked Brent Pasqua about.

He's a CAL FIRE battalion chief.

And he pointed out that the irony is that with all that rain, it gets lush and green and it turns to brittle in prolonged heat.

I mean, maybe.

But like, Aisha, like everything in the world right now, everything feels unpredictable.

I mean, climate scientists have started blaming this past warm winter out here on the rapidly melting oceans.

Arctic, which is causing the jet stream to swing away from us.

And then there's this huge blob of warm water out in the Pacific that's sending us these warm storms, at least when we get them.