With the NRCS interactive SNOTEL map showing a few sites within reasonable driving distance, I took a chance and dropped an email to Pete Youngblood, an NRCS hydrologist based out of the local ...

A precipitation gauge at the Utah Snow Survey’s Powder Mountain SNOTEL Site is pictured at the ski resort in Eden on Thursday.

SNOTEL sites are automated and don't require having people on the ground, except for once a winter to make sure they're accurate. They send information to NRCS about air temperature, snow depth ...

Burned during the Strawberry Fire in mid-September 2017, the Badger Pass SNOTEL site is fully functional for the 2019 winter snow year.

Idaho uses SNOTEL sites and manual snow courses to measure snowpack water content, with 28 measurement locations across the Magic Valley region.

Why all that snow we’re shoveling may not rescue Utah from a bad water year Empty streams and dry farms are being mentioned as data from “Snotel” monitoring sites keeps piling up.

A SNOTEL site measures snowfall, precipitation, temperature and other climatic conditions. After 10 years of data collection, manual snow course measurements won't be needed.

VAIL — The deadly pine beetle that has ravaged forests across the Rocky Mountains isn’t only affecting trees. This week, snow scientists from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Snow Survey Program ...

The amount of snow at the Atwater SNOTEL site across the road from the Alta Ski Resort has Troy Brosten, a hydrologist with the snow survey team thrilled.

Everyday machines at different SNOTEL sites throughout the state predict runoff in the spring and stream flow in the summer.

“Each dot on the map is a different SNOTEL site. The square ones are the snow courses, which are measured once a month versus the SNOTEL stations where data is measured every 15 minutes.