Eastern North America is having snow melt and runoff into rivers. And this time it did earlier than it did in the first half of the 20th century! — The U.S. Geological Survey says. It is found that flows in many rivers in the northern United States and Canada are occurring earlier by 5-10 days. This study is published in Geophysical Research Letters.
Most rivers north of 44 degrees north latitude showed earlier winter-spring stream-flows. And in contrast to this, many stations south of this line in Iowa, southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois had later stream-flows!
Lead researcher Glenn Hodgkins at the USGS Maine Water Science Center said, “We studied rural, unregulated rivers with more than 50 years of USGS and Environment Canada river flow data.”
Via: Physorg