Washington snowpack melting faster than wanted

From the Capital Press

Washington’s mountain snowpack is much greater in than it was a year ago, but warm weather and a lack of significant snowfall in February mean it will melt sooner than desired.

Statewide snowpack was 99 percent of normal on March 1, down from 109 percent on Feb. 1 and 120 percent on Jan. 1, said Scott Pattee, water supply specialist at the Washington Snow Survey Office of the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service in Mount Vernon. Read the rest of the story here.