Looking at Snow Water Equivalent data for Montana today (image above), you’d have to say that Montana is looking pretty good for this time of year, particularly southern/southwestern Montana, while the Clark Fork and Bitterroot drainages are running close to normal. Impressively, from the image below of month to date precip compared to normal, so […]
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Since the last snowpack post a little over a month ago, back home in Montana it’s been for the most part a genuine winter season per Jake, Kaitlyn, and Brantley in Livingston and for Jess in Missoula as well (as I write this note at close to 0730, it’s 16 and 8 in Lvn and […]
This time of year several friends and I begin to think about timing of some our first river circuit trips around Montana and Wyoming chasing the spring mayfly hatches. It’s always a crap shoot in terms of weather, river flows, and the actual arrival and peak dates of hatches, but it’s fun to think about […]
Now that we’re officially in the fall season, it’s time to take another look at what the climate prediction gurus are forecasting for the next several quarters, as late fall, winter, and early spring are (particularly the latter two) are when sustaining snowpacks are built to feed rivers through summer and early fall. Of course, […]
Transient: Extended and Unused Footage from Dustin Farrell (www.dfvc.com) on Vimeo.
Talking to the clan back home, and with my lovely wife back in Montana for five days last week, it’s pretty clear that most folks are reaching the end of their ropes when it comes to what has been a long and wet winter. That bodes quite well for the snowpack though, and through yesterday […]
Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) as of yesterday shows most Montana basins with an embarrassment of riches when it comes to the amount of snow tucked away in the high level snowpack, and there’s still some serious snowpack building season yet to come. Low level snow has been coming off for a few weeks now with […]
For those who paid attention to the forecast back in October that NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center made (we posted it here in The Odds of A LaNina Winter Keep Going Up), the current Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) map for the Northern Rockies, hot off the presses this morning, looks remarkably like the precipitation prediction map from […]
Snowpack and Snow Water Equivalent Looking Dandy in the Northern Rockies Northern Rockies snowpack looks pretty impressive for mid-January this morning, with Montana (top image below) and the rest of the West (bottom image below) mapped by river basin. Not too surprisingly, at least to some, snowpack / snow water equivalent distributions match up astoundingly […]
Once we get past the holiday season and roll smack into what for most of us chasing salmonids is the heart of the winter doldrums, there’s always a temptation to start thinking about chasing spring hatches in the Northern Rockies. Some of the finest fishing of the season happens pre-runoff and pre-tourista crowds, pending of […]
The Snow Santa has been very kind to Montana and at least part of the greater Northern Rockies so far this year (I’m looking at you, Wyoming), and there’s a major winter storm that’s been pummeling Western Montana for almost two days now. Of course it’s damned early in the snowpack building year, but snowpack […]
La Nina, that delightful phase of the ENSO (El Nino-Southern Oscillation) that keeps the northern tier of the country wetter and colder during the winter months, appears to be setting up (or at least has become much more likely – below) according to the latest from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center (read their current 6 Nov […]
FRACTAL – 4k StormLapse from Chad Cowan on Vimeo.
Pursuit (4K) from Mike Olbinski on Vimeo. Damn, full screen for this one.
Talking with Jake about the amount of snow held in the high snowpack last week, we were both somewhat amazed in particular at the numbers showing across Wyoming, southern Idaho, the Flathead, and even way down south in northern Utah and Colorado. The final volume and temperature of water flowing in our beloved rivers during […]
