Articles from the June 11, 2016 edition

Jun 11, 2016

Top of the Pass Early in the winter, most of Oregon’s mountains were on track to have a near normal snow season, according to the June Water Supply Outlook Report released by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. However, an unusually warm springtime temperatures abbreviated the winter and started an early and rapid snowmelt. While about half of monitoring sites in the state recorded near normal peak amounts of snow, most of those peaks occurred between one to four weeks earlier than normal. “The early snowmelt has resulted in str...