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2022 Pacific Northwest Water Year Impacts Assessment

Document Author

K. A. Bumbaco, C. L. Raymond, L. W. O’Neill, A. Mehta, D. J. Hoekema

Document File

2022 Pacific Northwest Water Year Impacts Assessment (12.25 MB)

Document Date

March 8, 2023

Document Type

Assessments

Document Description

The purpose of the 2022 Pacific Northwest Water Year Impacts Assessment is to summarize the water year conditions and sector impacts as a resource for future management of drought and other climate extremes.

The authors gathered the information presented in this assessment in two main ways. The first was through two separate but similar annual Water Year Recap and Outlook meetings: one for Washington and Oregon, and the other for Idaho. The meeting objectives were to summarize the climate during the previous water year and to review climate and weather-related impacts on various sectors, focusing on drought and other extremes. The second mechanism informing this report was the Annual Pacific Northwest Water Year Impacts Survey.

This report was a collaboration between the Office of the Washington State Climatologist, Climate Impacts Group, Oregon State Climatologist, Idaho Department of Water Resources, and NOAA's National Integrated Drought Information System.

This is the third annual assessment. View the 2020 and 2021 Pacific Northwest Water Year Impacts Assessments.