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The current snowpack of 12 inches of snow water equivalent statewide is just 74% of normal for this time of year, but also in the 7th percentile when compared to 1991-2020. To start the month, one ...
No drainage basin in Montana currently holds as much as ¾ of the snow/water equivalent it does in an average year. The best current situation is in northwest Montana’s Kootenai Basin where the ...
Data from a SNOTEL site in Elko County, Nevada. SNOTEL is an automated system of snowpack and related climate sensors operated by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) of the United States Department of Agriculture in the Western United States. There are over 900 SNOTEL (or snow telemetry) sites in 11 states, including Alaska.
The large panel in the foreground is the snow pillow. A snow pillow is a device for measuring snowpack, especially for automated reporting stations such as SNOTEL.. The snow pillow measures the water equivalent of the snow pack based on hydrostatic pressure created by overlying snow. [1]
Winters can be cold to warm depending on the side of the canyon. Most precipitation falls in spring and fall, and the snow pack accumulates mostly on the north facing side of the canyon. Townsend Creek is a SNOTEL weather station located roughly halfway between Worthen Meadow Reservoir and Frye Lake at an altitude of
Official reports indicated 14 inches of snow at Clover Meadows, Montana as of the morning of June 18. 24-hour snowfall prior to 6 a.m. MDT June 18, 2024.
Snow Depth-This is a measurement from the snow surface to the ground in meters. It is commonly does over a large time span using immobile graduated stakes. Snow Water Equivalency- A measuring tool which represents the vertical depth of water that would accumulate in an area, if all the snow and ice were melted in that given area.
The first major snowstorm of the season dropped up to a foot (30 centimeters) of snow in the Helena, Montana, area by Wednesday, sending an army of snowplows and sand trucks out onto the roads.