Oregon’s Spring Drought Becomes Historic
People across the Pacific Northwest are beginning to get very worried. The spring of 2021 has been the driest on record since March 1 in many places. PDX has received only 2.01″ of rainfall as of May 14. Normal for the first 2 1/2 months of spring is 7.97″! Generally spring rain tapers off very gradually between February and June. But not this year. March was about as dry as a normal June, and April was drier than July or…