Posts Tagged ‘spring runoff’
This Week’s Rain Only Slightly Helpful For NCW Summer Water Supply
Conservation and drought – two words you don’t to hear when forecasting the state water supply through September. Marcus Bellissimo reports this week’s rain meant good things for some areas of Central Washington at risk of drought this year. The lowland precipitation will help with soil moisture, but it won’t make up for the shortage…
Read MoreAbove-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.
Read MoreSnow Melt Continues Flooding Across Okanogan Region, With Rain In Forecast Thursday
Rising flood waters are threatening a nearly century old dam above Leavenworth and downstream residents are being told to be prepared to evacuate. The Eightmile Lake Dam was built in the 1920’s out of earth, rock and mortar. It is located in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness of the Cascade Range. High water is already causing…
Read MoreLake Chelan Water Levels on the Rise, Even with High Spillway
We’re talking Memorial Day weekend on KOHO today – a holiday where thousands of people come to North Central Washington to enjoy its hiking, biking, wineries and waterways. And in terms of water and boating, Lake Chelan takes the top spot, arguably the city’s busiest weekend of the year. Jay Witherbee with our sister station…
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 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…
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