1-30 NWR More Precipitation

This is your Northwest report for Monday, January 30 I'm David Sparks and as if all of these farm buildings collapsing throughout the Northwest due to heavy snow load wasn't bad enough, it looks like we are headed for more heavy precipitation. Here is USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey forecasting wetter and cooler weather through the West until February 6. "Looking ahead and this covers the last day of January in the first six days of February, by the time we get to the end of this. It looks like storms will be returning first to the west coast including California and then eventually it will take a more northern track as we look at the potential for an appreciable amount of rain and snow in this 8 to 14 day period all the way from the Pacific Coast states across the northern Rockies and the northern plains, upper Midwest and into the great lakes region.

Elsewhere, and related to so many stories that I have done about insects that decimate our forests in the Northwest, such as bark beetles, listen to a bit of wisdom Dr. John Ball with the South Dakota Department of Agriculture: "if you're buying wood to heat that all or use for a campfire made sure you use local sources." Because firewood from afar and bring in devastating insects that are foreign to the northwest. That we do not need.