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To: Eric who wrote (73958)	1/3/2017 11:42:06 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 86355

“There is an inherent tendency to hype.” What I keep saying. ....Washington’s weather in 2016 was pretty boring — from a newsroom point of view. A strong El Niño brought high temperatures early in the year; a follow-up La Niña cooled things back down. We got enough precipitation to fill our reservoirs for the summer. Floods? “No significant floods this year.” Fires? “People were nervous because the first part of the year was so warm, but we had an extremely benign fire season.” How about the “Blob,” that mass of warm ocean water that was blamed for low snowpack and scrawny salmon runs? It has cooled off and is “very dead,” Mass said, citing recent data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. And the snowpack that provides Seattle’s water? “The snowpack is in very good shape.”