Snowpack in Wyoming

[Wandering Daisy]

We are not the only ones with a high snow year. Both sides of the Wind Rivers are nearly 200% of the mean. The graphs are tracking other high-snow years, like ours is. Just a matter of if it will keep going or level out or start melting. Typically, in Wyoming, more snow actually falls later- March to May are the big snow storms. They are still having nearly zero temperatures so melting is a ways off too.

http://www.wrds.uwyo.edu/wrds/nrcs/snow ... wrept.html

https://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/ftpref/da ... reen17.gif

[austex]

I think it was a big snow year across the board in the wet. Just got back from Boise. Fished the Boise River Sunday; futile but all the same I had a line wet. The flow was 350 cfs. They are opening the gates as we speak to account for the early large runoff. Sorry no graphs etc. just first person insight and info from my brother-in-law.

[Teresa Gergen]

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[Tom_H]

Colorado is above average too, and also usually gets heavier spring than winter snow:
https://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/cgibin/sn ... l?state=CO

I wonder how much of the CO River watershed snowmelt will be retained in Lakes Mead and Powell and how much can be allocated to the Imperial Valley and LA. The water distribution scheme is very byzantine and it could affect how Sierra runoff is distributed.