Weather games, predicting big snow dumps

by Wayne Mumford on January 17, 2012

Snowmageddon. For the last week NOAA and the press have been pounding the epic storm drum here in western Montana. We are on the edge of said storm this evening. Now we get to see what mother nature, La Nina and NOAA have in common.

Just for giggles I’ll put up the last snow pack graphs from NRCS now that they are back up again and in a couple days we’ll go back for another look and see how things are looking after this storm.

MONTANA SNOTEL Snow Water Equivalent Update Graph

As of MONDAY: JANUARY 16 , 2012

Basin Snow Water Equivalent Percent of Average
KOOTENAI RIVER BASIN 82%
FLATHEAD RIVER BASIN 66%
UPPER CLARK FORK RIVER BASIN 69%
BITTERROOT RIVER BASIN 73%
LOWER CLARK FORK RIVER BASIN 73%
JEFFERSON RIVER BASIN 65%
MADISON RIVER BASIN 64%
GALLATIN RIVER BASIN 66%
MISSOURI HEADWATERS 65%
HEADWATERS MISSOURI MAINSTEM 91%
SMITH, JUDITH, AND MUSSELSHELL RIVER BASINS 75%
SUN, TETON AND MARIAS RIVER BASINS 91%
MISSOURI MAINSTEM RIVER BASIN 83%
ST MARY AND MILK RIVER BASINS 69%
UPPER YELLOWSTONE RIVER BASIN 77%
WIND RIVER BASIN (WYOMING) 74%
SHOSHONE RIVER BASIN (WYOMING) 80%
BIGHORN RIVER BASIN (WYOMING) 89%
TONGUE RIVER BASIN (WYOMING) 118%
POWDER RIVER BASIN (WYOMING) 100%
LOWER YELLOWSTONE RIVER BASIN 89%

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Royal Wulff aka Mike January 17, 2012 at 7:45 pm

Keep yer head down and good luck up there! Mike

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