The bare mountains

Nina Selipsky • Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h2><p>Mountain stations across Washington are reporting that there is currently no snowpack in the state due to the record-high temperatures this year. According to the Seattle Times, some basins where the snow typically lasts until late June have been empty since May. Forty percent of Washington's rivers are</p></h2>
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            <p>Mountain stations across Washington are reporting that there is currently no snowpack in the state due to the record-high temperatures this year. According to the <em><a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/northwest/snowpack-what-snowpack-state-measurements-show-zero/?ref=avalancheghost.one">Seattle Times</a></em>, some basins where the snow typically lasts until late June have been empty since May. Forty percent of Washington's rivers are at record lows, and thousands of Yakima basin farmers will have to carefully manage water this summer as a result, according to Jeff Marti of the state Department of Ecology. However, Seattle Public Utilities is sticking with its confidence that the snowpack drought should not cause issues for Seattle’s water supply, as rainwater filled the city's reservoirs.</p>
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Mountain stations across Washington are reporting that there is currently no snowpack in the state due to the record-high temperatures this year. According to the Seattle Times, some basins where the snow typically lasts until late June have been empty since May. Forty percent of Washington's rivers are at record lows, and thousands of Yakima basin farmers will have to carefully manage water this summer as a result, according to Jeff Marti of the state Department of Ecology. However, Seattle Public Utilities is sticking with its confidence that the snowpack drought should not cause issues for Seattle’s water supply, as rainwater filled the city's reservoirs.

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By Nina Selipsky

Nina Selipsky is an editorial intern at Crosscut. She is a senior at Lakeside School in Seattle, where she is an editor and writer for the school newspaper. Nina spent last summer working with a non-p