Water Levels Improve
From the Ag Information Network, I’m Bob Larson with today’s Fruit Grower Report. Water levels are better than expected following a winter with about half the normal snowpack in the mountains.
In spite of that, Cliff Mass, Atmospheric Sciences Professor at the University of Washington, says reservoir and river levels are about where they should be for mid-June …
MASS … “Right, in fact it’s in my blog today as well, I have the latest Yakima Basin information. And, you know, basically, we’re almost exactly at normal. You know, we had this substantial rain during the past week and that has actually stabilized the Yakima Basin. And so, we’re going down now and it’s sort of leveled off.”
So, for the east side, Mass says that’s a good thing …
MASS … “So, we’re almost exactly where we should be in terms of he storage of the Yakima Basin. And the Yakima River is running fairly close to normal. So, everything is really quite good right now.”
Mass says you just never know …
MASS … “Quite frankly, things are in pretty good shape. Even though the snowpack, it shows you we can get to a favorable location without the snowpack, if we get heavy rain at the right time, which we happened to get this year.”
And as for the fears of a Super El Nino on the way …
MASS … “The new information is that, you know, we are probably not headed for a Super El Nino, and it will probably be a moderate one this coming winter.
For more information, go to Cliff’s weather blog, at www.cliffmass.blogspot.com
