12-28 FB Snowpack

 Water Experts Assess the Water Supply at December Meeting. Water managers and hydrology experts met in Boise on Tuesday, December 13, 2011, to give reports on Idaho’s water supply outlook. This Idaho Water Supply Committee meeting covered topics that included weather, flooding, climate, reservoir operation, river flows, and snowpack. The committee included water managers and hydrology experts from state and federal agencies and the private sector.  Members of the committee made presentations and reviewed the latest data with other agencies and assessed the outlook for water supplies for the upcoming season. Here’s spokesperson Liz Cresto: “It is still  December. We have a big season left. It looks a little grim right now, yes. The snowpack is low. The high in the state is in the Panhandle at 86% of average. The lowest basin is  in the 25% of average. Most of the state is in the 40 to 60% of average range. That ain’t good. No that is not good. But they are still saying we are in the La Nina weather pattern, the ocean temperatures are in that pattern and in that scenario the odds are that we will have a wetter than normal winter, hold tight and keep your fingers crossed.