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Will robust snowpack mean a good water year?
Posted on: March 17, 2008
La Nia has delivered as advertised in Idaho this winter, leaving robust snowpack levels across the state and giving farmers hope that rivers and reservoirs will have ample water supplies to nourish crops during the summer.
State and federal hydrologists say the snowstorms that battered the state between mid-December and February built snowpack levels that are at or above 30-year averages in mountain ranges from Coeur d’Alene to Ketchum. An estimated two feet of water in the form of snow sits above the Boise River – water for crops along the way, as well as for this summer’s floaters and fishermen.
The highest levels are recorded in northern Idaho, where some lower elevation snowpacks are close to 200 percent of average, according to reports released last week by the Idaho Water Supply Committee.
Last fall, meteorologists predicted that La Nia conditions developing in the Pacific Ocean would deliver a steady and prolonged dose of snow, rain and cooler temperatures to the Northwest this winter.
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