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
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
Poor New Mexico, as bad as CA.
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
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—
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.
Here’s a nice site with current and historical data going back 8 years
http://ftp.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/cgibin/water/drought/wdr.pl
Regards,
Scott
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.)
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
Been living in Montana for 40 years and I never worry about the snowpack until we get through May. Some of the heaviest and wettest snows of the season come in April thru May, especially in the high country where it counts. Given the current snowpack it looks like we have a good base to work with and if the spring snows come we should have a great water year in Montana.
My guide out in Wyoming has emailed me that the snow pack there is high there as well.
Looking to fish the North Tongue in Mid July so hope all is okay there by then.
As rough as a winter we are having here in Maryland, a couple of days that I have
talked to him and the temps are 20 below…too cold for me.