With steep temperature swings the last few weeks in western Washington, and a snowpack well below normal, the newest longer-range forecasts from NOAA gave us a clue about what the rest of spring will bring weather-wise. A map of the current snowpack levels from USDA shows much of the Cascades with only 58 to 76% of normal. That’s not good news with less than a month left until the spring melt-off typically begins. The latest outlook from government forecasters said temperatures for the next 14 d

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