After nearly a year of record low precipitation, the rains that doused the region this past weekend are a welcome relief.
Hopefully they signal something of a trend for the upcoming winter that will jump-start the region out of what the U.S. Weather Service is painting as severe drought.
Not only are ski hills in desperate need of snow to recover from possibly their worst season on record — at least in the past 50 or so years — but more importantly for the economy of the state of Washington is the health of wheat and other crops.
“Our yields were down about 35 percent on average,” Beau Duff, m...
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