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Drought or Déjà Vu? What the Dungeness River Data Actually Show
Every summer, drought warnings return, along with calls to conserve water. But does more than a century of USGS data from the Dungeness River support the increasingly dire narrative? One CC Watchdog subscriber analyzed the public record dating back to 1923, and, together with criticism from renowned meteorologist Cliff Mass, the findings raise an important question: are Washingtonians getting the full picture?
Like clockwork, summer has arrived—and so has Washington’s annual drought declaration.
The Washington State Department of Ecology has once again declared the entire state to be in…
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