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A figure showing the intensity of drought across Washington. It is severe across the state's center.
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Severe Drought Bisects Washington

By Don Jenkins, Capital Press
A swath of Central Washington between Canada and Oregon has fallen into a “severe” drought, even though the state’s winter snowpack was above average for the eighth time in the past decade. 

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A figure showing a warm blob in the Gulf of Alaska.
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Second ‘Blob’ Appears to be Subsiding – For Now

This summer the North Pacific was hit with the second marine heatwave of the decade. Mirroring the first so-called “Blob” of 2014, scientists measured ocean temperatures as more than five degrees above normal, across millions of square miles stretching from Alaska to California. 

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