Snowpack Melting Fast
(Portland, OR) -- Oregon's snowpack is nearly gone and it's not even summer. The National Integrated Drought Information System reports that at automated sites in Oregon snow is present at only ten percent of locations. In Washington state there's snow at 40 percent of the stations. Both states had warmer than normal winters, even though precipitation was at or above normal. It didn't fall as snow. Nearly half of Washington streamflows are expected to approach record lows. In Oregon, nearly 85 percent of streamflow forecasts are expected to approach record lows.



