IEM Daily Feature
Tuesday, 20 January 2009

Waiting water

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 06:11 AM

The featured map is from the excellent NOAA NOHRSC website showing the modeled snow water equivalent. This is simply the depth of liquid water contained in the snow pack. Our lack of days above freezing has allowed the snowfalls to accumulate into a snow pack containing between 2-5 inches of water over the northern half of the state. The hope is for a slow snow melt so that the rivers have a chance to move water downstream. Some melting should occur this week as temperatures are expected to warm above freezing.

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