Recent storms help snowpack, but still well below average

KEITH TROUT
RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL
Posted: 12/21/2007

A pair of December storms have improved the snowpacks for western Nevada rivers, including the Walker River; but the end result is still less than half of the normal snowpack for this time of year.

According to the NRCS SNOTEL measurements, as of Wednesday morning (Dec. 19), the Walker River Basin had a combined snow-water equivalent (depth of water in snowpack if snowpack melted) of 40 percent of average for that date.

The Basin's precipitation level was also at 42 percent of average.

That is similar to the other western basins, with the Carson River's snowpack the best at 51 percent of average, the Truckee River watershed sitting at 42 percent and Lake Tahoe at 40 percent of average snow-water equivalent (SWE).

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