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"Currently, automated snow gauges on the east slopes
of the Cascades show 21 percent of normal snowpack and 73 percent of
normal rain, he said.
Scott Pattee, water supply specialist with the
Washington Snow Survey Office of the Natural Resources Conservation
Service in Mount Vernon, issued a report Monday. He said the season is
off to a slow start and that long-range weather forecast models show
such conflicting predictions that forecasters can only provide equal
chances for all scenarios."