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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UW Environment Response to COVID-19

Leaders throughout the College of the Environment are closely monitoring the local outbreak of the novel coronavirus and are making every effort to address the changing needs of the college community, wherever possible. 

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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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