It's not a drought -- yet -- but low snowpack is closely watched
SULTAN — Snowpack that feeds local watersheds is at just 36% of normal, but local officials say it’s too soon to cry “drought.”
It’s snowfall later in the season, around March, that really counts.
Even if the snowpack was at typical levels, Everett city engineer Jim Miller said it could still melt by April, when it would begin feeding most of Snohomish County’s water supply.
“Snowpack accumulates and peaks about the first of April,” he said.
Before Washington’s last big drought in 2015, Miller said, the same measurements in April showed a snowpack at zero.
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