Posts Tagged ‘mountain snowpack’
Cascade Snowpack About Normal Despite Warmer, Wetter Winter
Snowfall may be less this year than in years past, but at least we are seeing snow. And when it comes to snowpack, snow is a good thing, as Marcus Bellissimo reports.
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Above-Average Snowpack This Winter Creating High River Levels During Spring Run Off
An above-average snowpack is good news for farmers, fish and wildlife that depend on water through the summer. But unseasonably warm temperatures are melting that snow fast and that’s bad news for anyone living near a river reaching flood stage. Marcus Bellissimo reports.
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A Warm Start To 2018, But Is Winter Over? Not Quite
A ridge of high pressure is one of the reasons for an unseasonably warm winter so far in 2018. But was Punxsutawney Phil right? Will we get six more weeks of winter? Marcus Bellissimo reports.
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Positive Chelan PUD Reports: Snowpack, 2017 Performance Plan
Chelan PUD had a substantial “to do” list for 2017. Board President Dennis Bolz joins Dan Langager in the KOHO studio to review progress on the PUD’s 232-item 2017 Performance Plan. Many of the uncompleted 2017 projects are multi-year projects, ongoing efforts or required schedule changes into 2018 to respond to competing priorities. Chelan County PUD…
Read More2017 Likely Wettest Year for Pacific Northwest Since 2011
On Monday we told you about a new record set at Rocky Reach Dam in April – the highest average monthly river flow past the dam since measurements started on the Columbia in 1914. And depending on weather, forecasters predict flows will likely increase through this month. Northwest River Center forecasts are for Columbia River…
Read MoreNorth Cascades Highway Set to Reopen Tomorrow
For many it seemed like the winter weather might never end, after record rain and snow pounded the state and delayed the reopening of State Route 20/North Cascades Highway. Finally, warmer temperatures, warm rain and sun arrived and should allow crews to reopen the road well ahead of the Memorial Day weekend. Dan Langager reports.
Read MoreLake Chelan Water Levels Just Below Average
Even with the cold, snow, icy winter that seems to have gone on too long, snowpack in the basin above Lake Chelan is below normal. The Chelan PUD’s Energy Trading Analyst Becky Keating tells KOHO so far the Lake Chelan basin runoff forecast for April-July is at 89% of average. But, the below-average snowpack has…
Read MoreLatest Snowpack Readings Put 2016-17 Winter as ‘Average’
Washington experienced one of the coldest and driest January’s in the history of automated snowpack reading, according USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service. Temperatures were 20 degrees below normal and total precipitation accumulation was as low as 28 percent of average. Seven SNOTEL sites in Washington State set new record low precipitation accumulation and many more…
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