An Early Ahead Look to the Winter Snowpack Season

by Mark McGlothlin on October 30, 2016

in Inquiring Minds Want to Know

Of course served up with the requisite grain of salt (or two), NOAH’s climatology forecasts for the next three months (November, December, January) suggest fairly normal / seasonal temps for the northern Rockies with above normal precipitation. May it be so, as early snowpack (any snowpack for that matter) is always good.

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One month never a trend makes, but the month of September was a wet one for Montana watersheds per the new reporting graphic below; most river basins were well above normal in overall precip for the month.

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Time to dust off the snow dance and start to lay some snowpack in.