Montana Snow Pack and Precipitation

Montana Fly Fishing Magazine Spring issue | Pebble Mine Press Release

by Wayne Mumford April 15, 2012

Ah yes, the return of snow. A humbling reminder that snow is still just a cold front away. Spring tornado season on the plains seems to turn the northwest weather pattern into a side eddy where everything just sits  and slowly gets vacuumed into a collection of  whatever weather conditions happen to be in the [...]

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PC augers in | Spring (like real solar warmth you can feel)

by Wayne Mumford April 11, 2012

This sort of symbolizes the condition of my PC about a week ago. Well, maybe the actual visuals weren’t quite as good but it’s probably a good representation of what happens to computer innards when a virus sneaks through the antivirus bulwarks and rips your bits and bytes to shreds. It took some doing but [...]

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Montana Snow Pack Report (March 15, 2012) | Nemoura (Little Brown Stoneflies) | Food and Gold at Bristol Bay

by Wayne Mumford March 15, 2012

My first run out to the river for the season always goes like this. Bad weather just beyond the morning horizon but it’s beautiful (and this year-very cold) now. There might be enough time, better run for it. Being caught off guard (as usual) I grab some gear and toss it into the back seat, [...]

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Weather games, predicting big snow dumps

by Wayne Mumford 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 [...]

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Montana snow pack- 11/26/11

by Wayne Mumford November 26, 2011

No, I’m not already obsessing over next years water already. Just curious. There’s probably enough water left over from last year in places that even a decent snow pack would still be ok. As for weather, NOAA says the 8-14 day forecast is calling for below normal temperatures AND below normal precipitation. La Nina must [...]

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Montana Fly Fishing river and stream flow forecasts

by Wayne Mumford June 16, 2011

For the compulsive water watchers in the crowd, here’s a couple graphs lifted from the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service from the first week of June, 2011. We’ve all seen and heard about the snow water content. The second graph projects some stream flow forecasts. Snow Water Content River Basin Percent of Average Percent of [...]

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Montana Snow Pack- March 20, 2011

by Wayne Mumford March 21, 2011

It’s snowing here in NW Montana this morning, not the nice fluffy powder stuff we’ve seen all winter but the wet messy stuff that will just add a little less consistency to the growing mud bogs. It’s spring, whether it looks like it or not. The main stem of the Flathead is pumping up, has [...]

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Blue Sky- Montana Snow Pack and Precipitation | 12/6/2010

by Wayne Mumford December 6, 2010

Finally a break from a steady flow of snow, fog, freezing fog, freezing rain, fog- basically a steady diet of flat gray and very little light. Was nice to see what the neighborhood looks like again. It appears to be a good time to start in with the Montana snow pack and precipitation reports again. [...]

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