Not much good to say about 2020, and that includes the amount of precipitation we’ve received. The Yampa and White basin is sitting at just 64% of normal snow water equivalent (SWE) for this time of year on the USDA NRCS SNOTEL map as of Dec. 22. In case you’ve[Read More…]
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THE SNOW-LY GRAIL
Local snowmobiling enthusiasts are not disappointed by the amount of snow when they venture into the White River Basin high country. Last weekend Ripple Creek was still measuring 85”. The most recent reports in the Yampa/White basin indicate snowpack is 109% of normal, but the White River is actually just[Read More…]
Snowpack falls below normal
RBC | Unseasonably warm and dry weather dominated the first two-thirds of March in Colorado and much of the intermountain western United States. Many automated SNOw TELemetry (SNOTEL) measurement stations in Colorado were unable to escape the heat including a substantial portion of the higher elevation locations which led to[Read More…]
Snowpack conditions still good; runoff expected to be above normal
RBC | While February brought substantially less precipitation to Colorado than the previous two months, snowpack and precipitation accumulations were near normal, leaving us with well above normal snow water equivalent (SWE) and water year precipitation amounts. As of March 1, statewide snowpack was at 139 percent of the 1981-2010[Read More…]
Snowpack in Yampa/White River Basins at 108 percent of normal
RBC | Despite a meager amount of precipitation and unusually warm weather this fall and winter, the Yampa and White River Basins are reporting 108 percent of their median snowpack with 100 percent of water precipitation for the year to date, according to a Dec. 26 report from the United[Read More…]
Including Rio Blanco County, all state watersheds above normal
RBC I Including the Yampa and White River Basin, all Colorado river basins reported above-normal snow water equivalent as of the last day of 2015.
