Washington's Snowpack Collapsing Fast, Stream Flow At Risk

By JAKE ELLISON, SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Fri, 05/20/2016 - 1:49pm

By mid-winter, Washington's snowpack was looking pretty good, but then April came with record heat and steamed it all away.

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