Snow report

Idaho farmers and ranchers. I think you're going to be very happy with Idaho's snowpack. According to Erin Whorton, NRCS hydrologist. It really turned around in February. We had that long dry spell in January, and then it became wet and cold almost everywhere in Idaho. We're above normal throughout most of the state. The only area that we really see some dryness is still in the Coeur d'Alene Saint Joe Basin. Everywhere else is above normal, or at least at normal for this time of year. In the upper snake, headwaters were sitting between 100 and 1% of the Henrys Fork Teton to 122% in the Pocatello area, and the snake River headwaters were sitting at 111%. So the snowpack is looking really good in that area, and reservoir storage is above normal in that area. So water supply is looking pretty good so far. If we transition over to the wood and loss basins, we're sitting anywhere from 100% to 121% of normal. So the snowpack is the strongest in the big Wood Valley. And then if you go farther west, it's looking really good. The Boise Basin, sitting at 128% of normal, the Payette, 132% of normal, and the Weezer Basin sitting at 135% of normal. If we look farther south along the southern portion of Idaho, we're sitting anywhere between 104% to 136% of normal. And they have really good reservoir storage. So the water supply is looking good for that area as well, where we see a lot of snow is in the Owyhee Basin. Speaker1: Great news for Idaho ranchers, farmers and skiers.