Report: Climate Change could polarize streamflow patterns

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For Olympic Peninsula rivers, climate change could exacerbate seasonal lows and highs in streamflow. Dr. Crystal Raymond is quoted. 

“It doesn’t take much warming to raise winter temperatures enough for winter precipitation to fall as rain, rather than snow, and runoff in the winter.” – Crystal Raymond

Puget Sound’s ‘warm snow’ makes region vulnerable to climate shifts

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Harriet Morgan, research consultant with the Climate Impacts Group, is interviewed for this article on how decreasing snowpack in the mountains stands to affect humans and wildlife. “We are experiencing a change in the fundamental characteristics of our hydrology,” Morgan says. “We are going to have more water in winter when we don’t need it and less water in summer when we do.”