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7/3/2025, 5:21:29 AM
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Nevada is literally the most climatically arid US state. It is also the least forested western US state with less than 16% forest cover (the 13 state average for the western US is 33% forest) and of this forest cover more than half is just juniper scrub (not real canopy forest). It is also one of the least biodiverse US states outside of the great plains (the least biodiverse region in the US, even less diverse than Arctic Alaska) for its size and latitude. The reason Nevada is almost completely a desert is due specifically to the Sierra mountain range in California and the fact that NV is too far in the interior to get the humid climates and monsoons from the Pacific ocean like Arizona (which legitimately has actually year round humid forests in canyons, pic related, Arizona at 5,000 elevation). NV is also too far west to get the most of the bend in the Alaska gyre jetstream in winter also like Arizona and Utah that deliver hundreds of inches of winter snow every year to huge 5,000+ sq mi regions of Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico. Also due to NV's terrain and natural geography and the predominant climate patterns of the eastern Pacific ocean, Nevada has the fewest number of natural perennial streams and rivers in the western US, having less than New Mexico (which also has less than AZ) and than half as many as Arizona. NV is the only state that is actually seriously threatened with water supply issues as every other western US state gets most of its water from precipitation that falls in its boundaries and in tributaries above the Colorado river, NV depends wholly on the Colorado river and unsustainable ground water. In the last 24 hrs it has rained more than 2 inches at my house here in AZ, and this is just the start of the monsoon and it is typical for multiple events like that in wet monsoon years here. Nevada is literally 85-95% desert.
Nevada is literally the most climatically arid US state. It is also the least forested western US state with less than 16% forest cover (the 13 state average for the western US is 33% forest) and of this forest cover more than half is just juniper scrub (not real canopy forest). It is also one of the least biodiverse US states outside of the great plains (the least biodiverse region in the US, even less diverse than Arctic Alaska) for its size and latitude. The reason Nevada is almost completely a desert is due specifically to the Sierra mountain range in California and the fact that NV is too far in the interior to get the humid climates and monsoons from the Pacific ocean like Arizona (which legitimately has actually year round humid forests in canyons, pic related, Arizona at 5,000 elevation). NV is also too far west to get the most of the bend in the Alaska gyre jetstream in winter also like Arizona and Utah that deliver hundreds of inches of winter snow every year to huge 5,000+ sq mi regions of Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico. Also due to NV's terrain and natural geography and the predominant climate patterns of the eastern Pacific ocean, Nevada has the fewest number of natural perennial streams and rivers in the western US, having less than New Mexico (which also has less than AZ) and than half as many as Arizona. NV is the only state that is actually seriously threatened with water supply issues as every other western US state gets most of its water from precipitation that falls in its boundaries and in tributaries above the Colorado river, NV depends wholly on the Colorado river and unsustainable ground water. In the last 24 hrs it has rained more than 2 inches at my house here in AZ, and this is just the start of the monsoon and it is typical for multiple events like that in wet monsoon years here. Nevada is literally 85-95% desert.
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