Snowpack is still low in western Montana. Unfortunately, this also means a low snow water equivalent. Snow water equivalent is how much water is available in the snow to feed our water supply during ...

A warm winter has left mountain snowpack across the Western United States far below normal levels, triggering water allocation cuts in key agricultural basins and raising the prospect of tighter ...

What is going on with Colorado’s snowpack right now? The expert consensus is in: It’s all up in the air (or, more specifically, on the ground). In late March, the Roaring Fork Basin showed signs of ...

Colorado's snowpack has mostly melted, but hikers are still hitting pockets of deep snow on higher summits. Here's the ...

George Mason Researchers Conducting AI Exploration For Snow Water Equivalent Forecasting In Western U.S. With Physics-Informed Neural Network & GeoWeaver Ziheng Sun, Research Assistant Professor, ...

The snow water equivalent measurement (ASWS) in the West Kootenay backcountry for June 1 has dropped from its high late last ...

(A) Elevation, (B) land cover, and (C) canopy cover (%) for the Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) flight line (red outline) and the Upper San Joaquin River basin (USJ; black ...

Storms that brought water to much of Idaho in the first half of April offered a “modest rebound” in the state’s snow water ...

Recently, the Mountain Hydrology Group released its fifth near-real-time report on snow-water equivalent (SWE) in the Western US in 2025, and was covered in an INSTAAR press release. In essence, the ...

FEMA, THE DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES HELD ITS THIRD SNOW SURVEY OF THE SEASON. IT FOUND THE SIERRA NEEDS MORE SNOW TO MEET THE STATE’S WATER NEEDS. CREWS WENT OUT INTO THE SNOW COVERED MEADOW THIS ...

CU Boulder researchers apply machine learning to snow hydrology in Colorado mountain drainage basins, finding a new way to accurately predict the availability of water Determining how much water is ...