During her summer travels across the Pacific Northwest,
South Carolina CoCoRaHS observer, Sally McGuire took this picture of a rain
gauge at Lake Quinault in Olympic National Forest. This area is known as a temperate
rainforest and therefore receives LOTS of rain. In fact, rain is measured
in feet rather than inches! Bu as you can see, even this rainy region is
experiencing dry conditions just like many places in the Western US. This
week’s US Drought Monitor shows much of Washington in D0, D1 or D2 status.
Lake Quinault, located in the Northwest
corner of the state, is abnormally dry.
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