Whatever the reason, the Middle Fork of the Snoqualmie River is one of the Seattle area’s best-suited locations to commune ...

Specifically, we targeted a field that usually holds snow late in the season. Additionally, we targeted SNOwpack TELemetry (SNOTEL sites), where we have good control with respect to snow cover. One ...

Learn about these methods in this TAP story. This map shows snowpack information collected from SNOTEL sites in river basins across the western U.S. Image credit: National Resources Conservation ...

The measurements were taken at a SNOTEL site at 8,800 feet elevation near the Mount Rose ski area on Monday morning, where the snowpack is 85% of the median.

To the visual eye, the water outlook for the Carson River basin may appear somewhat bleak, but the Nevada Water Supply Water Outlook for January tells a different story.

STATELINE, Nev. – To support research and snowpack modeling efforts the NRCS has upgraded 18 SNOTEL sites across the western US to SNOTEL “Supersites”. As part of this effort, Heavenly ...

Each SNOTEL site has a snow pillow, which measures the weight of the snowpack and gives you the snow-water equivalent. Next to the snow pillow there’s a tower about 20 feet tall, and there’s some ...

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

“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.

Water managers at the city of Aspen have a new tool to help them better understand and plan for the city’s water supply. Last week, after four years of planning and permitting, crews from the ...

This study investigates the correlation between snow: depth, water equivalent and density measurements taken by the SNOTEL 663 site and those obtained through the Federal Snow Sampler at C1 on Niwot ...