Snowpack Hits Record-Low Levels Across Montana

As of early April, when snowpack-monitoring stations in Montana are typically peaking, one-third of the longer-standing sites are posting record-low totals.

That’s according to the April Water Supply Outlook the Natural Resources Conservation Service released on Tuesday, which highlighted that some low-elevation snowpack monitoring sites had completely melted out by April 1, when they’re normally hitting their peak for the water year. (The “water year,” as hydrologists call it, begins on October 1. Water supply forecasters use it to understand the relationship between wintertime snow accumulat...