Brace yourself for more water use restrictions, but not all the news is bad.
. The instruments beam hourly data on snow depths, the amount of water held in the snow and levels of moisture in the soil. NRCS scientists use that data to predict how much water irrigators and water customers can expect once the snow melts.
For decades, Utah’s mountain snowpack has acted like a natural water bank — storing the resource until temperatures climb and people need to start irrigating their lawns, gardens and farms. The snowmelt trickles downhill to rivers and streams, filling up reservoirs for use throughout the hot and dry summer.
“All those October rains really helped us,” Hess said. “And then December was critical as well. We had great moisture in December.Still, customers in the Weber Basin should expect to take conservation measures this season. Hess expects restrictions up to 40% for agriculture, 60% for landscape watering and 10% for drinking water.
Even quantifying what’s “average” for Utah’s water picture is a moving target as the state becomes hotter and drier.NRCS scientists began installing SNOTEL sites in the late 1970s and have manually collected snowpack data since 1924. That means they have a nearly century-old log of how snow and runoff behave across the state. But when the agency reports its averages, researchers are actually relying on a 30-year snowpack median.
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