>>2302879You're so fucking retarded I shouldn't even bother at this point, you should dome yourself.
Annual precipitation equaling or exceeding annual PET means the climate is not a true desert. A P/PET ratio of less than 0.50 is regarded as arid, 0.50-0.99 as semi-arid, and 1.0 and above as semi-humid to humid (regardless of distribution, the annual budget is semi-humid to humid). Semi-arid climate in the west usually does not even have desert scrub, and is mostly just savanna and grasslands. Over 50% of CO has a P/PET ratio above 1.0. Only braindead eastern niggers or braindead retards classify the entire west or individual states as one huge desert. Biome, ecology, topology, climate, and precipitation budget are not the same as each other. For example, approximately 50% of CO has P/PET rate equal to or above 0.90-1.0+, but only 34% of the state is forested (similar in forest cover ratio to for example, Minnesota), as forest alone does not indicate temperate climate.
Precipitation =/= rain, it is total annual budget that includes rain and snow (snowpack as well is a product of precipitation). Most of CO's winter precipitation snowpack melts every summer, which generates runoff (70-80% of which falls on and drains from the west slope, despite 80% of the population living east of the divide which is where the sole problem with CO's water supply occurs).