The violent weather has changed Yellowstone National Park forever - here's how
The popular tourist attraction has experienced what some call a "1,000 -year event".
If you have anext trip At the planned Yellowstone National Park, you are not alone: aroundFour million people Visit Yellowstone each year, the summer months being the most popular moment for visiting. The park, which extends over more than two million acres of land through the states of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, was created for the first time in 1872, which makes it the oldest and One of the largest national parks in the United States, but while Yellowstone has gained massive popularity among travelers who are able to observe the security fauna of their own car, those who hope to cross this summer could be in difficulty. The park was suddenly closed because of the bad weather, and when it reopens, it may never be the same again. Read the rest to find out more about Yellowstone's permanent changes.
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Extreme time has recently hit the United States.
As summer arrives, the United States is already having trouble with extreme and unusual time. According to Accuweather, record high heat hashit several states In the first part of June of this year - which is unusually early for the season. "Comfortable times will only be a distant memory in the coming days," warned the forecasters. Current extreme timehas already invited Thermal warnings, power failures and serious floods for hundreds of thousands across the country, CNN reported.
More than 100 million Americans - or almost a third of the entire population - areunder an extreme heat warning Right now, with some cities reaching more than 110 degrees, meteorologists have saidThe New York Times. And serious storms in the Midwest and the Southwest have caused power outages for thousands since June 13, with more than 300,000 people in at least five states still stillwithout power, according to data from Poweroutage.us. At the same time, serious floods have already caused historical changes to the oldest national park in the United States
Strong precipitation and severe heat have made a massive flood in Yellowstone National Park.
The extreme time of the country has already had extreme consequences. A massive flood struck Yellowstone National Park on June 14, with water levelsHigh records at 11.5 feet that night, according to theBozeman Daily Chronicle.Cam Sholly, the park superintendent, said at a press conference that the flood had been causedby the combination Two to three inches of rain striking the weekend before and warming temperatures melt 5.5 inches of snow, perThe New York Times.
Following the floods, more than 10,000 visitors had to be evacuated from Yellowstone, and on June 14, Montana Gov.Greg Gianforte declared a disaster on a state scale. Civil servants also haveClosed the five entries In the park, and the entire park is likely to remain closed for at least a week while the officials assess the impact, said Sholly. But the entries near the northern section of the park could remain inaccessible until the end of October.
"I have heard that this is an event of 1000 years, whatever this means these days. They seem to happen more and more frequently," said Sholly, adding that certain weather forecasts put Already in custody against the possibility of additional floods this weekend.
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The flood has already changed the park permanently.
This serious flood could forever modify the landscape of Yellowstone National National Park in a waywho could withdraw More than thousands of years of work were devoted to the park accessible to tourists, reported the Associated Press (AP) on June 15. ""Important floods throughout Park County washed the bridges, roads and communities and isolated left houses, "officials said in a June 13 statement published on the Facebook page of Park County, Montana.
According to the AP, flood waters have potentially pushed a popular fishing river permanently and damaged the roads which may therefore need to be rebuilt. "The literally and figurative landscape has radically changed during the last 36 hours", "Bill Berg, said a commissioner in the County of Park, nearby, in the media. "A little ironic that this spectacular landscape was created by violent geological and hydrological events, and it is simply not very practical when this happens while we are all here installed."
Experts warn the impact of climate change on the weather.
Officials did not directly attribute the serious floods to Yellowstone to climate change, according to the AP. ButRich Thomas , a climate specialist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, told the media that, as the environment heats up, extreme weather events are more likely that they would have been "without warming than the 'Human activity caused ". AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
"Yellowstone will have a rehearsal in five or even 50 years? Maybe not, but somewhere will have something equivalent or even more extreme," said Thomas. According The New York Times , Yellowstone should see "an increase in fires, dying forests, an expansion of meadows, more invasive plants and deeper sailors" in the coming decades due to the increase in the constraints of climate change.
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