Record Northwest drought feared.

Scientists in Washington state are warning that a warm winter and low snow-pack could result in the Northwest's worst drought drought, abnormally long period of insufficient rainfall. Drought cannot be defined in terms of inches of rainfall or number of days without rain, since it is determined by such variable factors as the distribution in time and area of precipitation during and before since 1992. That year hundreds of thousands of acres in the West burned in wildfires and those in the Puget Sound Puget Sound (py

`jĕt), arm of the Pacific Ocean, NW Wash., connected with the Pacific by Juan de Fuca Strait, entered through the Admiralty Inlet and extending in two arms c. area suffered through water rationing rationing, allotment of scarce supplies, usually by governmental decree, to provide equitable distribution. It may be employed also to conserve economic resources and to reinforce price and production controls. .

Philip Mote and Richard Palmer

For the medieval Sicilian bishop, see Richard Palmer, Archbishop of Messina.

Richard Palmer is an entrepreneur and is the founder of the company d3o Lab. Richard trained as an engineer, and then went to the Royal College of Art to study design. , members of the University of Washington Climate Impacts Group, warn the dry weather may be part of a trend that will require some rethinking in the current management of natural resources. The UW consortium uses climate science tools to assess short-term weather and long-term climate change.

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Title Annotation:	News from the world of Trees; analysis of climate change
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Date:	Mar 22, 2005
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