Hopes for Snow and/or Rain
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Jon.Diedrich
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Well I am from Minnesota I did some figuring and if we could siphon one inch of water off Lake Superior would provide 1.6 million acre feet of water to Lake Powell via Green River which comes out of southern Wyoming. Still that’s a long way for that water to flow from Lake Superior (or to be pumped) 1100 mile distance to Green River in Wyoming. HIGHLY unlikely. Just playing with the numbers this morning. Good day to all.
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RobertGosselin
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We have gone from a 38% of normal snowpack to 70% of normal in just a few days. Hope springs eternal.Forecast isn’t bad, but the jet stream is steering storms mostly along the northern tier, not down to critical Colorado watershed. But,
Yes! Good to see, warmer weather now will melt some of it off and put that into the ground instead of sublimating into the air, that will help for spring runoff production.
Continued hopes and rain/snow dances ongoing...
Dorado
Keeper of San Juan Secrets
Always hopeful...but the 2 week forecast is 15-20 degrees above average...Not real conducive to building snowpack. Even where the Jetstream is bringing the moisture in the Pacific Northwest, it is so warm very little is falling as snow. Funny thing is that the east and Midwest are getting the cold weather, while the west is balmy. We need the pattern to switch and have the storms move across the Rockies, not shoot up and around to the north!
Yes! For sure that would be a help as would a large pineapple express that gets a direct hit and is strong enough to get there and drop a gob of moisture. Hurricane level storms do happen once in a great while, they gotta have enough moisture in them to get past the Sierra's...
I was hoping to see more of these storms get sent a bit further south at least so they could contribute to the headwaters and I think the earliest ones did do some of that. More, more, more! Is what my snowdance is for everyone out west.
At least this was a nice bump and a start.
viking842000
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2018 would be a great lift ! Can only hope... jk... 2022 was the bad year and we could be tracking that direction if no change but it's early December. Sure not time to get excited
2018 was basically as bad as 2022.
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Shredhook
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We had significant Southwest flow already a month and a half ago, just diidnt get the cold front with it!Yes! For sure that would be a help as would a large pineapple express that gets a direct hit and is strong enough to get there and drop a gob of moisture. Hurricane level storms do happen once in a great while, they gotta have enough moisture in them to get past the Sierra's...
I was hoping to see more of these storms get sent a bit further south at least so they could contribute to the headwaters and I think the earliest ones did do some of that. More, more, more! Is what my snowdance is for everyone out west.
At least this was a nice bump and a start.
viking842000
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Guess I respectfully disagree with you as I have always used Hall's to launch (and I only launch Oct-early May) and it was not until 2022 I had to launch from the south end as all ramps were dry up north. 2022 into spring of 2023 was the worst I have experience by far... as far as lake level
I mean in terms of the lack of a spring bump. Yes 2018 started from much higher.
