Utahns — outside of Park City, anyway — celebrated a series of storms that dumped snow statewide over the weekend.
The state still has a ways to go to reach a normal snowpack for this time of year, however, and is nowhere on track to have the record-breaking winter seen last year. A flurry of storms forecasted in the days ahead, however, could bump snowpack in certain basins to depths typical for January.
Data beamed in from the U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service’s SNOTEL sites — weather stations across the state that collect snow data — show Utah’s snowpack combined is at 73% of median. None of Utah’s hydrologic basins have snow totals near or above average except the Raft River Mountains, which mostly drain into the Snake River and will do little to relieve the state’s water shortages.
In the Great Salt Lake’s watershed, the Bear River basin and Weber-Ogden basin have the highest snowpack, at 84% and 80% of median, respectively — about the same as before the weekend’s snowstorms. Storms over the last few days bumped the Jordan River and Tooele basins into just over 70% of median.
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