NRCS Montana Monthly Water Supply Outlook Report
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NRCS Montana Conservation News Release - April 8, 2022 |
April 1, 2022, Snow Water Equivalent as a percent of median (1991-2020)
BOZEMAN, Montana, April 8, 2022 – March did not bring a much-needed shift to active weather patterns that would have benefited our mountain snowpack. March precipitation was well below normal across most of Montana. As a result, most snowpack percentages decreased for the third consecutive month. “Most of the state has been in a prolonged dry period since mid-January and many stations, particularly in southwest Montana, have recorded record low precipitation since then,” said USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Hydrologist Eric Larson. Northwest Montana and the northern Rocky Mountain Front were exceptions and received near to above normal March precipitation. Much of that precipitation arrived during the first week of the month and due to unseasonably warm temperatures fell as rain at all but the highest elevations.
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| USDA-NRCS Hydrologist Lauren Austin measuring snow at Fourmile snow course in the Tobacco Root Mountains near Ennis, Mont., in t-shirt weather during April 1 surveys. |  |
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