Montana Snow Pack and Precipitation

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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Montana snow pack, May 3 2010

by Wayne Mumford May 3, 2010

The last couple weeks has sent us a pretty steady stream of precipitation and cooler weather including a nice storm this past week that put nearly two feet of snow in some high country areas including the Flathead. Water analysts have been fretting about Flathead Lake not reaching full pool so the new high country [...]

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Montana weather, the 5 minute weather drill

by Wayne Mumford April 2, 2010

The seasonal spring weather roller coaster is operating at full throttle. I’m sure you’ve heard the adage, “if you don’t like the weather right now, give it five minutes”. Northwest Montana really hasn’t picked up snow from the last couple storms to blow through. Everything has pretty much gone south starting about Butte and on [...]

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