Brien McElhatten
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Brien McElhatten
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ABC4 Journalist Covering 🌎 @sejorg, KF7OHA براین
Nearly 20 million people watching every night x 5 nights a week x 52 weeks a year. Outside of the NFL, the most-watched programs in America are the old-school national news broadcasts.
New 🔥 start: #DryForkFire (Uintah Co.) approx. 13 miles NW of Vernal on Bureau of Land Management land. Est. 50 acres. Smoke visible across Ashley Valley. Resources are on scene and responding. Firefighters will remain on scene overnight and will reassess tactics and fire behavior in the morning. #ffslkmg
We have been telling you about the record low snowpack in Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado-- just got this Via @JeffreyCook Denver residents got an email today implementing its harshest water restrictions since 2013. “We’re going to be supply limited, and we don’t have the snowpack to fill the reservoirs,” said Nathan Elder, manager of water supply for Denver Water. “We're going to have to ask our customers to conserve water and we're going to have to go on mandatory water restrictions.” “What we're seeing right now is not good. We're looking at a really, really low snowpack,” Elder said. denverwater.org/residential/re…
The temperature 🎢 roller coaster continues this week for UT. High temps 📈 soar to record levels again thru midweek, with a minor cool down for N. Utah to wrap up the work week. 🌡 Temps in SW Utah will break records through Friday, with some minor coolness this weekend! #utwx
This week's precip forecast by @NOAA's @NWSWPC. Similar to last week, outside of western WA state, parts of the N. Rockies and Midwest, and the East, little to no precipitation is expected to fall this week for the Lower 48. drought.gov/forecasts @NWS
COLUMN - Colorado River faces a day of reckoning We are two and a half decades into the Southwest’s most severe drought of the last 1,200 years, and this winter’s snow dearth is one of the most extreme on record. Read more: ow.ly/N5uP50YxiBp