Colorado snow survey scoops up evidence for 'wet year' in US West

Mosquito Creek, United States (AFP) April 12, 2023

High up in a dazzlingly white, tree-lined valley of the Rocky Mountains, two scientists armed with skis and clipboards peer at the long hollow tube they have just thrust vertically into a pristine snow drift. "Twenty-four inches, that's not so bad," says Brian Domonkos, before grabbing the metal cylinder - now stuffed with snow - and hitching it to a portable scale dangling from his collea