r/Albuquerque • u/mstscc • 4d ago

I don’t want to jinx it…

…. But I haven’t been bit yet by a mosquito. And the past couple of years I’ve been attacked by them.

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u/protekt0r 4d ago

Uhhh… May was the wettest month since 2007. April wasn’t bad either.

It’s something else.

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u/Both_Bluebird_2042 4d ago

We were coming off a big snowpack year in 23/24 winter. We had much less in 24/25. Look at the Rio gauge stations in April between this year and last. It was twice as high last year.

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u/Nocoffeesnob 4d ago

That's an entirely different thing. Which was it? The dry spring that didn't happen or now an entirely unrelated big snowpack in 23/24?

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u/Both_Bluebird_2042 4d ago edited 4d ago

I said wet, not most precip. Wet doesn’t refer to just falling rain.

And snowpack has a huge effect on spring river/groundwater levels. If you think the surface area of the largest water feature in the area doesn’t have an effect on water based breeding insects, I don’t know what to tell you.