Montana Snowpack

[ScottP]

Looking pretty good so far and things can really pile up Feb-April (hopefully just snow, not cars).




Rest of the West, minus California which is in the midst of a serious drought



Regards,
Scott

[John Rhoades]

Scott -

Can you provide the website link to these graphs. It would save me looking them up. These graphs are a lot more user friendly than the SNOTEL site that I have been using, which shows every individual snow gauge.

Incidentally, the Upper Yellowstone is now at 123%, as your graph shows, but it was as high as 130% just a week or so ago and there isn't a lot of snow forecast there for the next couple weeks, and with somewhat warmer daily high temperatures also forecast, I expect a further downward trend over the foreseeable future. Hopefully the good snowpack will hold through spring.

Thanks, John

[herefishy]

Poor New Mexico, as bad as CA.

[ScottP]

Can you provide the website link to these graphs. It would save me looking them up. These graphs are a lot more user friendly than the SNOTEL site that I have been using, which shows every individual snow gauge.

John,

Here you go

http://wwa.colorado.edu/climate/dashboard.html


Still have Feb-April which historically are good snow months to keep the numbers up in MT. That and a cool spring would be much goodness.

Regards,
Scott

[sagefisher]

Scott,

Glad to see that Montana is getting plenty of snow, gives me hope for my fishing this summer.

I knew we were hurting in the Cascade Mountain range as I drove over to Ellensburg this past weekend a couple days of fishing on the Yakima River and the lack of snow in the pass was pathetic. It will be a low water year in eastern WA this summer.

All the more reason to go to Montana!

Larry ---sagefisher---

[Lotech]

Hopefully the snowpack on the west slopes of the Rockies will be beneficial to the habitat around the St. Joe, Lochsa, Selway & North Fork of the Coeur d' Alene Rivers in north Idaho.

[ScottP]

Here's a nice site with current and historical data going back 8 years

http://ftp.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/cgibin/...drought/wdr.pl

Regards,
Scott

[John Rhoades]

To heck with all those numbers and averages, Scott, just tell whether there's any good fishing there now:


This is a picture my friend just sent me of the Yellowstone River taken at Mallard's Rest, a few
miles south of Livingston, MT. (The local butcher in town has a 14# brown trout mounted on the wall of his shop that he says he caught there several winters ago.)

[Longs for Cutts]

Not there, but in Gardiner has been excellent all winter. Stonefly nymphs and various midges (including dries on calm, cloudy days). With the Gardner River (geothermally heated 3mi upstream) and various other hot springs, we never get like that up here.

[ScottP]

Not there, but in Gardiner has been excellent all winter. Stonefly nymphs and various midges (including dries on calm, cloudy days). With the Gardner River (geothermally heated 3mi upstream) and various other hot springs, we never get like that up here.

Gardiner, nestled deep in the Banana Belt of Montana; who'da thunk it?

Regards,
Scott