Went around to some of the Local Dams

grumpygy

You would think that with the snow pack so low they would be filling them up. Well they are not. Dexter Dam is down about 5 foot. But Lookout Point is at least 20-30 feet below the high mark.

Need to check a couple of others but if they are all like this I will Be able to Walk Across the Willamette river this summer and not get wet.

montanajoe

Dang. I heard Lake Tahoe is very low also.

grumpygy

quote:Originally posted by montanajoe
Dang. I heard Lake Tahoe is very low also.


http://tahoe.uslakes.info/Level.asp

fordsix

they say the cali snowpack is as low that is on record,,i have a picture of the cali snowpack in 1941 that is as deep as a telephone pole[:0]

1BigGuy

The Spokane River is roaring over the Post Falls, ID dam right now, and has been for several weeks. I was in the neighborhood yesterday and stopped to take a look.
They say that the regional mountain snow pack is around 30% of normal. There's only so much a dam can hold back. Grand Coulee/Lake Roosevelt still has plenty of room to store the incoming water though. Roosevelt doesn't normally reach full pool until late June.
Maybe this year, it won't make it at all. We might have an exciting fire season instead. [V]

Mercury

Good thing climate change isn't real!

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Merc [:p]

gartman

Drove I-80 to the Reno show Friday and have seen more snow in the Sierras at the end of August than there is now.

montanajoe

quote:Originally posted by grumpygy
quote:Originally posted by montanajoe
Dang. I heard Lake Tahoe is very low also.


http://tahoe.uslakes.info/Level.asp
Neat link,thanks.[^][^]

Mk 19

This was the driest and warmest winter we have had in many years, in the past year we have only had 12" of rain here in Highland and their is virtually no snow pack at all, the only snow that can still be found is on the northern slope of 11,500 foot tall Mt. San Gergonio.

Alpine

Idaho snowpack is normal. Normal procedure around here is to let reservoirs down this time of year, and then when runoff happens the reservoir fill back up and rivers can run below flood.

grumpygy

quote:Originally posted by Alpine
Idaho snowpack is normal. Normal procedure around here is to let reservoirs down this time of year, and then when runoff happens the reservoir fill back up and rivers can run below flood.





If we had any snow pack I would not have said anything.

Dads3040

Even without snowpack they will still draw down the reservoirs to handle the spring rains.

For the most part, snowpack is a steadier and more predictable inflow. The downpours we can get here in the PNW are the wild card.

Rocky Raab

I drove over a high mountain pass here in Utah this past weekend. At an elevation where in a normal there is snowpack until sometime in June, the ground was bare.

It does not look good.


(Oh, and to stick my spoon into the stirred pot, climate change is very real. It's just the human-caused blame game that's bogus.)

Horse Plains Drifter

quote:Originally posted by Rocky Raab
(Oh, and to stick my spoon into the stirred pot, climate change is very real. It's just the human-caused blame game that's bogus.)
Yes, exactly.