Oregon Snow Pack 2019 (moving, associations, areas)

[karlsch]

Very important for the state of Oregon.

As of January 5.

Most Cascade mountain areas are pretty grim. Northeast Oregon is close to average.

Snow water equivalent as a percentage of historic median: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal...9.828&zoom=7.0

[PNW-type-gal]

For snow, we (Rogue basin) are better than last year but still behind the last 5 years (the NRCS data doesn't go back further than that, but I have seen totals other place that show that the last 10 years have been the lowest contiguous 10 years on record).

Rain-wise, we are at about half of our average water-year total. October, November and the start of December were very dry and the precip seemed to go around us. Still early in the year, but it's not shaping up well.

[texasdiver]

Originally Posted by karlsch

Very important for the state of Oregon.

As of January 5.

Most Cascade mountain areas are pretty grim. Northeast Oregon is close to average.

Interesting that it is just western Oregon for the most part. Most of the Washington cascades look pretty close to normal. Usually the climates in Oregon and Washingon are more closely linked.

[Larry Caldwell]

Originally Posted by texasdiver

Interesting that it is just western Oregon for the most part. Most of the Washington cascades look pretty close to normal. Usually the climates in Oregon and Washingon are more closely linked.

With climate change the weather patterns are moving north. Think Oregon and Northern California, Washington and BC. I grew up in the Willamette Valley. 50 and 60 years ago we got snow almost every winter. Every kid had a sled