Here’s a final look at spring snowpack (using Snow Water Equivalent measures) in Montana and the greater West from yesterday’s reports.
The first week of June is a bit later than we’ve posted the final snowpack update in years past, but it’s been snowing, at times damned impressively, in the high country of much of the Northern Rockies into late May this year. I haven’t taken time to dig back the historical records, though looking at graphic below, I’d guess that Wyoming and Colorado have as much SWE loaded in the high country at the beginning of summer as they’ve had in some time.
There’s a brisk runoff coming for many Northern Rocky river basins this early summer, and (of course) pending late spring/early summer rain and the summer weather cycles, the summer river flow season looks fairly encouraging in much of the West based on the above. Time will tell.
