April Sheridan County Snowpack Report

USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service District Conservationist Andrew Cassiday has shared the snowpack report for the month of April. 

According to the University of Wyoming, Snopack Telemetry or SNOTELs, refer to a network of automated, remote weather stations in the Western U.S. and Alaska that measure snowpack data, including snow depth, snow water equivalent, precipitation, air temperature, and soil moisture, to support water supply forecasting and resource management

Currently the state’s SNOTELs are reading 98% of median with a basin high of 106% and a basin low of 36%. Last year the state was at 98%, and at 123%. 

According to the April 1, Sheridan County Snowpack Report, the southern Big Horns are more or less the same as a year

ago with less snowpack water, averaging just better than two-thirds of median.  

Cassiday reports that as has been the theme this year, eastern Bighorn’s snowpack water content ranged widely with data from 66% to 144% of 30-year medians. Tongue River drainage data are just above median, 102%, based on combined manually collected snow-course data and Snotel remote-site data, while the Clear Creek drainage composite snow-course and Snotel data at 70% of median is much lower. The entire Powder River basin, including Clear Creek, averages a bit better with Snotel data alone, at 77% of median.

Find the entire April 1, Sheridan County Snowpack Report below.