With thanks to the Oregon Department of Transportation, fondly known as ODOT, these webcam captures give a good idea of this winter in Bend.
We're having a good year in the higher country, with the snowpack just hitting 100 percent of normal. But consistently low snowpacks in past years have Central Oregon's largest reservoir, Wickiup on the Deschutes River, at all time lows.
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| 21 miles, 3000 feet same time |
Hydrologists say it could take several years of better snowpacks to pull the region out of summer drought, or near drought, and return larger agricultural growers in Jefferson County to more normal operations.
