Washington snow worryingly below normal levels

Sponsorship

Cascade PBS Staff Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

Republish Article

You can republish articles in print or online. Simply copy the HTML below, which includes our tracking pixel, all paragraph styles and hyperlinks, the author byline, and credit to Cascade PBS. Republishing of the photos or videos embedded in an article can occur only if the photo or video is a copyright of Cascade Public Media ("CPM") and not of a third party. Photos and videos that are a copyright of CPM are not required to appear in the republished article, but if they are used, they must be embedded where they appear in the original article and must include the attribution to the CPM photographer.

You may reprint in any medium
You may edit only for tense and timeliness
If republishing in print you can edit for length if you follow our print republishing guidelines.
You may write your own headline
Include a byline and shirttail with credit and link to Cascade PBS
Include our tracking pixel
Remove if we ask

          <article>
            <header>
              <hgroup>
                <h1>Washington snow worryingly below normal levels</h1>
                <h2><p>While Seattleites have been outside enjoying a generally sunny and warm winter, such a lucky spell of weather is not necessarily good news. As the Bellingham Herald reports, snowpack in Washington state has been 29 percent below its normal level for winter, while snowpacks in the North Cascades have been</p></h2>
              </hgroup>
               <p>By <a href="/author/cascade-pbs-staff/">Cascade PBS Staff</a></p> 
              <p><time datetime="2025-02-04T05:00:00-08:00">Feb 6, 2018</time></p>
            </header>
            <p>While Seattleites have been outside enjoying a generally sunny and warm winter, such a lucky spell of weather is not necessarily good news. <a href="http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2015/03/03/4163503_snowpack-in-state-and-north-cascades.html?rh=1&ref=cascadepbs.org">As the Bellingham Herald reports</a>, snowpack in Washington state has been 29 percent below its normal level for winter, while snowpacks in the North Cascades have been at a staggering 40 percent below normal levels.</p><p>Low snowpack means low water supply later in the season — more than half of which typically comes from melting snow. According to Scott Pattee, water supply specialist for the <a href="http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/site/national/home/?ref=cascadepbs.org"> Natural Resources Conservation Service</a>, all of this is engendering worries of a drought this summer and fall.</p>
          </article>

While Seattleites have been outside enjoying a generally sunny and warm winter, such a lucky spell of weather is not necessarily good news. As the Bellingham Herald reports, snowpack in Washington state has been 29 percent below its normal level for winter, while snowpacks in the North Cascades have been at a staggering 40 percent below normal levels.

Low snowpack means low water supply later in the season — more than half of which typically comes from melting snow. According to Scott Pattee, water supply specialist for the Natural Resources Conservation Service, all of this is engendering worries of a drought this summer and fall.

Washington snow worryingly below normal levels

Republish Article

By Cascade PBS Staff