Areawide snowpacks continue to increase

The month of March came in like a lion and remained a lion. Overall, areawide snowpacks continued to increase. Some snowpacks’ snow water equivalents (SWE) are approaching record levels. There will be a lot of surface water exiting out of the mountains when it warms up.

As of last week, abnormally cool weather is curtailing snowpack melting conditions, making concerns about the upper and lower snowpacks melting out at the same time possibly causing flooding issues. Some areawide snow courses are approaching record levels in southern Lincoln County and the upper Uinta Mountains.