The Associated Press
SEATTLE — The National Park Service has approved a new 30-foot weather tower at Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park to improve forecasts for floods, winter storms and avalanches.
Park officials said today that the tower will allow the park and the Northwest Weather and Avalanche Center in Seattle to make better measurements of snow depth and precipitation.
The center provides detailed weather and avalanche forecasts for the Cascades and Olympics.
Park crews will install the new weather tower this summer, after snow melts. The tower will be located about 100 yards from the existing weather station.
Hurricane Ridge is 17 miles south of Port Angeles at an elevation of about 5,200 feet.
