SEATTLE — A new study out of Washington State University (WSU) uncovered an unsettling trend of springtime heatwaves that have been causing snowpack to melt earlier for years. The WSUstudyaimed to ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Snowpack in the Inland Northwest is some of the lowest in the country as we approach Memorial Day Weekend. The water locked up in the mountains is less than half of what we would ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — The California Department of Water Resources gave an update on flood monitoring efforts on Tuesday. Their report showed that the snowpack is at 233 percent of average and ...

FLOOD RISK THIS YEAR. THE SIGNS OF WINTER SLOWLY TRICKLING AWAY. SNOW MELTING, RIVERS BEGINNING TO OPEN UP AND TEMPERATURES CLIMBING. BUT THESE CHANGES COME WITH THE QUESTION HOW DOES THIS IMPACT THE ...

FARGO — Melting a deep winter snowpack is a very complicated process, made particularly difficult to predict this spring because it will all be happening in April instead of March as it usually does.

NOAA issued a special report identifying a spring melt cycle in the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere that it called “not normal.” Mountain snow across the Pacific Northwest melted fast and early this ...