April 2026 SW Climate Podcast - Mind-blowing March Meltdown
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April 2026 SW Climate Podcast - Mind-blowing March Meltdown
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Recorded 04/03/2026, Aired 04/07/2026
Hosts Zack Guido and Mike Crimmins go full coroner in this month’s episode of the Southwest Climate Podcast and do an autopsy of the record-setting March heat wave. Expect fluid dynamics, conservation of angular momentum, and level of divergence type of nerding for this deep dive. They go over the heat impacts to snowpack and forecasted streamflow, and the end of month precipitation event which looked monsoonal. Lastly there is some excitement for the upcoming super El Niño that’s brewing. Stick around on this long-ish one for a full explainer on the Pacific Decadal Oscillation - at the 1:02:43 mark.
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Climate Perspectives - Western Region
Paper: “Synthesis of Publications on the Anomalous June 2021 Heat Wave in the Pacific Northwest of the United States and Canada”
USDA - NRCS: Snowpack & Streamflow
RainLog
NOAA - CPC: El Niño Southern Oscillation
NOAA - NCEI: Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)