Snow on its way

Snow on its way

David Sparks Ph.D.
David Sparks Ph.D.
This is your Northwest report for Thursday, December 8, I'm David Sparks and if you are a skier or a farmer or rancher, Meteorologist, Brad Rippey, has good news for you He says increasing snowfall in the Pacific Northwest should pick up even more this week. "It has finally turned cold across the West and that is good news because the early part of the wet season across the northwestern United States was exceptionally wet but it wasn't cold enough for much snow. We only saw snow at the highest elevations. As we have moved into December that has begun to change but there is a broad area across the interior Northwest that has still not accumulated much snow. At those look like it is in the process of changing. We have a really nice batch of Pacific storminess heading for the Northwest into the weekend and beyond and with much lower temperatures in place, that should help finally establish snowpacks across the Northwest in areas that have not received much snow yet.

 

Staying on the topic of weather, it may be easier in the future for farmers and ranchers to be able to forecast what kind of weather is coming their way. The NOAA, otherwise known as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration launched what they referred to as a GOES-R, which is the first of a new class of very high-powered, technologically advanced weather satellites.

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