One month left

So far this year there hasn't been a lot to cheer about vis-à-vis precipitation in the form of rain or snow which ultimately turns into snow pack which is essentially a stored High country water source. Daniel Hoke, is the Deputy Watermaster for the Boise River out of Water District 63. I asked him if he thought there could be early water shut offs again this year?

“It might be a little too early to say on that, but it’s definitely a potential for that. Like I said with low carry over from last year, the reservoirs are below average, the snowpack’s below average right now, so if things do not improve that’s a possibility, yes,” said Daniel Hoke, the Deputy Watermaster for the Boise River out of Water District 63.

“That’s the ultimate question right now is what going to happen in March because March is going to make or break the seasonal snowpack, so typically across Idaho just in general terms April 1st is where we typically where we see the maximum snowpack, and that’s not necessarily the total snow depth, it’s the maximum amount of snow water held in the snowpack. And so we have about a month left in most locations to pick up a significant amount of snow to get to normal, to a normal peak snowpack and that’s really our goal every year is we want to see around a normal peak snowpack,” said Danny Tappa, who is a Hydrologist and Data Collection Officer with the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Idaho Snow Survey.