Snow Outlook

A chat with NRCS water specialist Ron Abramovich regarding snowfall. “We didn't get the storms we had hoped for in January, did we? The first two weeks of January started out very dry with blue skies and our snowpack was losing 1 to 2 percentage points per day but then around January 13 we had a week of wet weather and that helped tremendously. It still did not bring our precipitation to above normal for the month of January. We should end up with January seeing approximately normal precipitation across most of the state. The way my talk started off in the beginning of January it was not good news because we were so dry. But now with this normal precipitation in January, it looks like our stream flow forecasts will stay the same as where they were a month ago. What about the rest of the winter? We still have a couple of months ago and sometimes the last two months can dictate how the season ends up. We are off to a great start and we are just hoping that we can get these storms to continue into early April.