Fw: [pct-l] snow/water

[jomike@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (JoAnn M Michael)]

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From: "JoAnn M Michael" <jomike@snowcrest.net>
To: <goforth@cio.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] snow/water


> Klamath basin (CA/OR order with fish/water arguements) and Klamath
National
> forest on the western side of Siskiyou (by Scott Mtn. and Russian
Wilderness
> areas) are two very different spots. Same name/some over lap, but my info
> (and yours) is correct.
>
> JoAnn
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joanne Lennox" <goforth@cio.net>
> To: "JoAnn M Michael" <jomike@snowcrest.net>;
> <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 2:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] snow/water
>
>
> >
> >
> > ----------
> > > From: JoAnn M Michael <jomike@snowcrest.net>
> > > To: pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
> > > Subject: [pct-l] snow/water
> > > Date: Saturday, February 15, 2003 8:26 AM
> > >
> > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
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> > > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ]
> > > Article in local newspaper advises extreme northern CA is in best
shape
> > snow/water content wise in many years. Thank heavens, we were a gnats
eye
> > brow away from a real drought. Though snow levels were down, water
content
> > was up.
> > >
> > > Of the  five places where samples were taken in the Klamath National
> > Forest the water content was anywhere from 108% to 192% of average.
> > >
> > > JoAnn
> >
> > I am reading very different percentages - with the snow water equivalent
> as
> > of today being only 53 % of average in the Klamath basin (10 sites
> > reporting;); 74% total precip pf average.  The highest site at 6200 feet
> > has 15 inches snow water equivalent, which means about 30 inches of
snow.
> > I have figured that about 1`5 inches of snow melt in a month with
average
> > temperatures like in May or June.
> >
> > I was using the following site:
> > http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/sno_narr3_pl
> > the first part of the report is an overview and then each state and each
> > drainage is detailed .
> >
> > Joanne
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