While we’re just now getting to the real snowpack building season for the Northern Rockies, it’s hard to ignore the decent looking numbers for December.
Precipitation for Montana’s Water Year to Date by basin (above) looks pretty impressive considering recent years past, the more critical (read meaningful) Snow Water Equivalent numbers by basin (below) even look decent for the end of December.
The West as a whole, in terms of Snow Water Equivalent by basin below, looks even more impressive considering how severe the drought has been along the left coast, in southern Idaho, and even in New Mexico.
The season of course may change if the long predicted but yet to fully develop El Nino to end all El Nino’s does indeed set up and push the Northwest and Northern Rockies to a warmer and drier first quarter of 2016.
If backed into a corner today, I’d put money on the El Nino, but time will tell.
Meanwhile, let it snow.
