Cheney Free Press -

SPOKANE – Forecasts from the Natural Resources Conservation Service shows a probability for above-normal precipitation and temperatures across Washington.

This annual report opens with a general outlook, indicating among other things that much of Washington remains in a D0 status, which is abnormally dry. Most of Spokane county, however, is below D0 on the drought intensity scale.

Spokane river basin snowpack was measured at 133% of the median, compared with last year's 105%.

Precipitation charts for December show Spokane county at 120% of average, compared with the water-year percent of...