snowpack

In the Northwest’s Cascades, there’s snow at high elevations, but it’s scored by vertical lines showing where rain has run downhill.This warm El Niño…

?April is the traditional start of the whitewater rafting season. The hefty snowpack in the mountains this year is good news for commercial rafting…

The latest Washington state water supply forecast is out and managers said Monday there’s no reason to believe the state might face drought this…

Scientists have new cautionary predictions based on the low Northwest snowpack levels of the last two winters.In 2014 and 2015, Oregon’s western Cascades…

Early this winter, skiers in the Northwest were excited. But then after about Christmas things turned dour. The once-epic snowpack is now long gone. In…

The early heat wave across most of the Northwest is forecast to start winding down Wednesday. It might have felt nice while it lasted, but the unusual…

April 1 is, on average, generally considered the date of the peak snowpack in the Northwest. And around now, is when many irrigation districts begin…

A couple winters ago, a team of Northwest scientists jumped in a pickup and traveled hundreds of miles around the U.S. and Canadian backroads. They were…

The looming threat of drought next summer has water managers willing to try anything to build up winter snowpack. Idaho and other Western states are…

Mt. Hood’s Timberline Resort is the only place offering a full summer ski season in North America. But not this year. The resort closed to the public on…