Findings

Congress finds the following: (1) According to the American Meteorology Society Glossary of Meteorology, snow drought occurs when there is a period of abnormally low snowpack for the time of year. (2) Snow drought is described as either dry or warm, depending on whether the drought is a result of below-normal cold-season precipitation or a lack of snow accumulation despite near-normal precipitation, usually as a result of warm temperatures that cause precipitation to fall as rain rather than snow or an unusually early snowmelt.