Northwest Continues To Dry Out
Drought conditions continues to spread across the Inland Northwest.
Latest figures, from NOAA, show roughly 3% of Washington is under a D1 “Moderate Drought” designation. Much coming in the southeastern part of the state. That is much better than this time last year, when all of Washington was not only under a D1 designation, but the entire state was also under the D2 “Severe Drought” designation.
The state of Oregon is much drier by comparison. Nearly 50% of the state is under the D1 designation. Again, that figure is much better than July 2015, when 83% of Oregon was designated “Severe Drought”.
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