Of course it varies from year to year, but December usually brings Pacific and Gulf of Alaska born storms that begin to build the season’s snowpack – the lifeblood of the water year in the West – and build it in earnest (hopefully anyway).
December Has Been Good for Montana’s Snowpack
Looking at Montana’s snowpack by river basin today shows fair to middling numbers in terms of snow water equivalent…
Though when you look at the precipitation that’s fallen thus far in December alone, the numbers are much more impressive…
December Has Been Very Good for the Central Rockies’ Snowpack
Today’s west-wide snow water equivalent numbers look pretty damned impressive across much of the Central Rockies.
It’s early, and the real business of snowpack building is yet to come, but things are off to a decent start today.
Dig out more data here on the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Portal – this link takes you to the Montana page but it’s easy as pie to navigate to other state’s pages.
