Monday, February 11, 2013

Wyo. snowpack still down but slowly growing

Wyoming's snowpack is slowly growing. The statewide snowpack was 84% of average on Monday, up from 82% last week and 76% at the start of the month. Lee Hackleman of the Natural Resources Conservation Service in Casper said the weekend storm increased the snowpack in the southern part of Wyoming significantly. The National Weather Service said about 20 inches fell in Sinks Canyon south of Lander over the weekend. Casper Mountain got 14.5 inches of snow. A year ago, Wyoming's median snowpack was 107% of average but on the decline. This week's snowpack figures range from a low of 51% of average in the South Platte basin to a high of 98% in the Yellowstone basin.

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