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The Daily Barometer

The Student News Site of Oregon State University

The Daily Barometer

The Student News Site of Oregon State University

The Daily Barometer

The dusty glacier on Glacier Peak in Wallowa County, Ore. during August, 2021. According to local climate expert Larry ONeill, rainfall, heat from the summer, the snowpack in the mountains and how early the snowpack melts out are all factors to consider when determining the severity of drought.

Wet conditions will not end Oregon’s worsening drought, according to climate experts

Hayden Lohr, News Contributor
November 15, 2021

Despite close to normal precipitation averages, Oregon’s drought continues to worsen, according to local climate experts.  “This year's drought was more severe than the precipitation totals suggest,”...

PNW wildfire

It is ‘reckless’ to exclude climate change from discussions on wildfires

Haley Daarstad, News Contributor
September 28, 2020

With around 1 million acres having burned in Oregon alone, and a quarter million Oregonians under some form of an evacuation order, Oregon’s Gov. Kate Brown called the fires a wake up call to climate...

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