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The Great Salt Lake effect is a small but detectable influence on the local climate and weather around the Great Salt Lake in Utah, United States.In particular, snowstorms are a common occurrence over the region and have major socio-economic impacts due to their significant precipitation amounts.
A salt storm is a low-lying cloud of airborne salt that hovers over large areas, the result of wind sweeping over salt flats. Salt storms usually occur in places with large aboveground deposits of salt, such as those surrounding the Great Salt Lake in Utah and the Aral Sea .
Symptoms of dust pneumonia include high fever, chest pain, difficulty in breathing, and coughing. With dust pneumonia, dust settles all the way into the alveoli of the lungs, stopping the cilia from moving and preventing the lungs from ever clearing themselves. [citation needed] People who had dust pneumonia often died. [1]
Utah's Great Salt Lake dropped to its lowest recorded level this month amid a two-decade drought, a grim milestone as researchers and politicians point to grave threats to wildlife and people ...
The shrinking Great Salt Lake is facing ecological collapse as salinity levels rise. State leaders hope a hearty snowpack and a surplus in the state budget can save the it.
The plaintiffs want a court to force the state to let more water reach the largest natural lake west of the Mississippi River. The Great Salt Lake is shrinking rapidly, and Utah has failed to stop ...
The Great Salt Lake is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere [1] and the eighth-largest terminal lake in the world. [2] It lies in the northern part of the U.S. state of Utah and has a substantial impact upon the local climate , particularly through lake-effect snow .
Climate change is taking a toll on Utah's Great Salt Lake, rendering it "a puddle of its former self," according to a new report published in the Salt Lake Tribune.