It doesn’t take long to ruin a good thing. In April, Southwest Washington was coming out of winter with a healthy mountain snowpack of around 125 percent above normal — a good sign for the upcoming dry season; but it only took a few weeks to dramatically reduce an entire winter’s worth of snow accumulation. “It was those extreme temperatures through the whole month,” said Scott Pattee, a water supply specialist with the U.S.

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