This winter season’s mountain snowpack has been well below average to this point, so how much of the snow deficit was made up during the recent snows?
It has stopped snowing in the mountains for the moment after having more than a week of quite welcome snowfall.
In mid-February, the Olympics were not faring well at all with just 30% of average snow on the ground. According to statistics from the Northwest Avalanche Center, the recent snows improved that total on the ground to about 66% of average. The National Resources Conservation Service indicates that the amount of water in that snowpack is now about 50% of average, an improvement of 20%.In the Cascades, the snowpack in mid-February ranged from about 40% at Mt. Baker to 83% on Mt. Rainier.
Yet long before the end of this month, the latest extended weather outlooks point toward a return to warmer and drier conditions – not good news for continuing to build up that mountain snowpack.
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