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Washington state rain no cure drought, due to bleak snowpack
2015-03-15 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Californians take note: It is possible to have rain - lots of it - and still be plagued by drought. Just look at tiny Forks, Wash., which bills itself as the wettest town in the contiguous United States. As of Thursday, 26.6 inches of rain had fallen on the Olympic Peninsula hamlet since Jan. 1, nearly twice what Los Angeles averages in an entire year. And yet on Friday, Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee declared droughts on the Olympic Peninsula, which has three separate rainforests; as well as on...
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Lack of snowpack creates concerns for streams, fish
2015-03-09 19:44:02| PortlandOnline
Kylie Wray in the Portland Tribune, March 7, 2015
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KUOW: What a Record-Low Snowpack Means For Summer In The Northwest
2015-03-09 16:56:51| PortlandOnline
News story posted to KUOW.org March 6, 2015.
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Dr. Know: With our snowpack dangerously low, shouldn't the city be asking us to conserve water?
2015-02-25 23:57:22| PortlandOnline
Marty Smith in the Willamette Week, February 25, 2015
Most critical months for snowpack loom
2015-02-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Coloradoan: The coming months will make or break snowpack levels on the Cache la Poudre River Basin and determine all important water supplies for families and farmers. As of Feb. 1, the Poudre basin was at 92 percent of the median, seeing a rise in snowpack levels during the first part of February while levels in much of the Colorado declined. The same time last year, the Poudre Basin's snowpack was 112 percent. But February, March and April are historically the snowiest months on the Poudre basin and...
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