Extraordinary and prolonged March heatwave to break records and decimate mountain snowpack across U.S. Southwest, including much of California

“Winter” 2025-2026 warmest on record across most of Western U.S., including SoCal & Sierra Nevada Well, now it’s official: Winter (Dec-Feb) 2025-2026 was the warmest on record across the majority of the American West, and a top-3 warmest winter nearly everywhere that it didn’t quite cinch the record. That includes nearly all of the Colorado […] The post Extraordinary and prolonged March heatwave to break records and decimate mountain snowpack across U.S. Southwest, including much of Californi...