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SR 20 North Cascades Highway temporarily closing |
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Tuesday, 15 November 2011 14:47 |
Heavy snow is forecast and conditions will be reassessed on Monday
OKANOGAN – The North Cascades Highway’s winter closure gates swing closed at 8 p.m. tonight in advance of forecast heavy snow storms over the next several days. Road conditions, avalanche danger and weather forecasts for Thanksgiving week will be reassessed on Monday to determine if SR 20 can be reopened. The National Weather Service is predicting up to 22 inches of snow by Thursday morning with more fronts bringing more snow through the weekend.
WSDOT maintenance crews have been working around the clock since Friday plowing and sanding the 3 to 5 inches of snow that has fallen each day since then. This morning at Washington Pass, 4 inches of new snow on the pavement greeted the dawn with more than 20 inches accumulated on the shoulders.
The highway closed on December 1, last year. The 37 mile winter closure zone begins seven miles east of Diablo Dam at milepost 134 on the west side of Rainy Pass (4,855’) to nine miles west of Mazama at milepost 171 below Washington Pass ( 5,477’).
Last spring’s May 23 reopening was the second latest in the highway’s 39 year history. It typically opens between the last week in March and the first week in May. The earliest opening ever was March 10, 2005. One drought year, four years after the highway first opened in 1976, it remained open all winter.
...what will they find on Monday? Hard to say, but I think I'd have a back up plan ready, if I was planning to use the NCH for Thanksgiving...
Jeff Adamson
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 15 November 2011 17:49 |
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Okanogan County Burn Ban Lifted |
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Wednesday, 05 October 2011 13:15 |
The Okanogan County commissioners have lifted an outdoor burning ban in unincorporated areas of the county that was established in July. The ban was lifted Tuesday, October 4th.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 05 October 2011 13:17 |
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Okanogan County Burn Ban Now in Effect |
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Wednesday, 20 July 2011 14:35 |
The outdoor burning ban for Okanogan County is now in effect, as of Tuesday, July 19th, 2011. The use of gas or charcoal fired barbecues is allowed. Recreational burning may be permitted with an exemption from the Fire District Chief.
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Burn Ban lifted for Okanogan County |
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Thursday, 23 September 2010 00:00 |
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Cool, wet weather has prompted the Okanogan County Commission to lift its countywide burn ban effective Wednesday, Sept 22th, 2010.
The Department of Natural Resources had lifted their burn ban on state-protected lands in Washington on Tuesday, Sept 21st. The heavy rainfall throughout the state has eased the summer fire danger and the National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center’s September 2010 outlook calls for below normal temperatures and above normal precipitation.
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Last Updated on Sunday, 26 September 2010 13:41 |
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Time for the Annual Power Outage! |
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Thursday, 02 October 2008 14:43 |
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Electric Power for the Methow Valley will be temporarily interrupted in a scheduled outage for maintenance purposes, in the early morning hours of Friday, October 3rd, 2008. Power will be shutoff at 1am, and be turned back on at 5am.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 15 October 2008 17:47 |
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