MT. HOOD, OR -- Oregon continues to experience an extremely low snowpack, and the latest measurements from a site on Mt. Hood aren't encouraging. Julie Koeberle, a hydrologist with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, says the water content is at about a four-foot deficit.
"We measured a record low snowpack, and that's going into spring," Koeberle says. "Today it was 17 inches of water and a snow depth of 3 1/2 feet. Last year, we had 10 inches of snow."
According to Koeberle, typical snowpack would be 12 feet.
Three-quarters of the state's snow monitoring sites are at their lowest snowpack levels on record. It's expected a majority of Oregon's streams and rivers will have below normal flows this year.