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Storms push NE Oregon snowpack to well above


BAKER CITY — February pulled off a feat in its 28 days that most months can’t manage in 30 or 31.
A barrage of blizzards during the shortest month boosted the snowpack in the mountains of Northeast Oregon from below average to well above. At a few measuring sites the snowpack doubled, or nearly so, during February.
“Yes, those storms we saw from mid to late February really boosted the snowpack,” said Marilyn Lohmann with the National Weather Service in Pendleton.
The Upper Grande Ronde Basin is at 140% of normal with the Lower Grande Ronde near 120% of normal, and the Wallowas stand at 124% of normal, she reported. This is significantly higher than at the start of February when the basin snowpack was 91% of normal. February precipitation was 216% of average. Precipitation since the beginning of the water year (October 1 to March 1) has been 111% of average ....

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