snowpack

The winter of 2021-2022 has been a disappointment for the farming community across the Pacific Northwest. A winter that started with great hopes, thanks to La Niña, has not lived up to the hype. Marilyn Lohman, meteorologist with the National Weather Service said the area enjoyed a fair amount of rain and snow to start winter back in December and in early January, but then the weather pattern sh

The snowpack is very thin across Oregon. In fact, the numbers are so low that Scott Oviatt with NRCS-Oregon calls it concerning. At this point, the only region Oviatt said is not concerning is the northern Cascades area, including the Willamette and the Hood, Sandy-Lower Deschutes basins, which are both well above average for this time of year ...

While it does not feel like a heat wave, the temperatures across the Pacific Northwest have moderated over the past week. And following those bone chilling temperatures to wrap up 2021 and start the New Year, these average temperatures are feeling downright pleasant ...

When it comes to legislative issues, what will be on the farming community’s radar both in the state capital and in Washington D.C.? Bryan Searle, President of the Idaho Farm Burau Federation said many of the issues he’ll watch in 2022 are consistent year after year, such as water rights and burdensome regulation. But he no ...

Record snowfall here in the west that’s closed roads and delayed flights also brought some good news for California and its long-term drought. State officials note that California’s snowpack is now well above normal in the mountains. Snowpa ...

Despite the recent winter storms that have hit the Pacific Northwest, the snowpack across Washington is not extraordinary by any stretch of the imagination. Scott Pattee with NRCS Washington said the statewide snowpack is 113% of average for this time of year, which he said sounds good, but he was quick to point out western Washington is the reason that figure is so high ...

What a different a week can make when it comes to Northwest snowpacks. On December 6th Oregon’s statewide snowpack average was roughly 13%. But after the stormy weekend the region saw that figure has jumped up to 73%. Scott Oviatt with NRCS Oregon said much of that fell in the Cascades, but he noted some of the snow made it over the mountains to central and eastern Oregon. He ...

"With all this warmth and dryness from November and early December, we actually reached a record low continental U.S. snow cover by December 3rd.  By that date we had just 6% of the continental United States covered by snow," said USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey recently. He ...

This mild weather has made traveling through area passes very easy for early December, but unfortunately it’s done a real number on the snowpack for this time of year. Meteorologist Marilyn Lohmann, with the National Weather Service, said that could start to change Wednesday. She ...

Statistics confirm what your eyes have already told you as you look at the higher elevations across Washington. The snowpack across the Evergreen State is almost non-existent for this time of year. In fact with the exception of the North Puget Sound, which is at 91% of average, and North Central Washington’s Upper Columbia, which currently sits at 77% of average, all of the snowpacks statewide a