“What we’re hoping for this year is that the storm pattern just keeps coming,” Clayton said. During that water year, storms continued to pepper the state well after New Year’s Day, and the snowpack began to melt on May 1 at 24 inches of snow water equivalent, 8.2 inches more and nearly one month later than the peak normals. The promising total on New Year’s Day wound up in another below-normal snowpack in the end.Ī repeat of 2011 would be just what Utah needs amid its drought situation. 16, 2022, when the next active pattern rolled in. However, it then plateaued, gaining just 0.2 inches between then and Feb. The snowpack spiked from 3.4 inches on Dec. Last year provided an example of how patterns can drastically shift in Utah. Spencer Cox reiterated last month, there is more snow needed in the second half of the season. Of course, there still are three months left in the traditional snow collection season and, as Gov. The record high in that time is 14.6 inches set in 1984 the record low is 3 inches set in 2018. In fact, Utah’s 2023 total is tied with 1982 as the eighth-best snowpack on New Year’s Day, according to the federal agency’s data, which goes back to the 1981 water year. Sunday’s total is the best Utah’s snowpack has been on New Year’s Day since 2011, when the state’s mountains held an average of 12.5 inches of water by the holiday. This graphic shows Utah’s snowpack total on Sunday compared to other snowpack levels on New Year’s Day since 2014. This number also represents nearly two-thirds of the annual snowpack collected in a year with 92 days left until the normal peak in early April. 27, helping push Utah’s current total to 170% of the normal for early January. The storms tacked on 3.6 inches of water on the statewide average since they began on Dec. “We got the (snow) depth but the good news is that we have the water in the depth. “If you shoveled this week, you know this was not fluffy powder,” he said, appearing on KSL NewsRadio’s “Dave and Dujanovic” Tuesday. This is why the area dealt with downed power lines and tree damage as the snow fell. The most recent storms were abnormally water-heavy, something that’s bad for avalanche danger but great for snowpack.įor instance, KSL meteorologist Kevin Eubank said the water content in the 52 inches of snow at Sundance is about double what typically falls in the mountains. It’s since risen to 10 inches of snow water equivalent, as of Tuesday morning. Utah’s average snowpack - a figure calculated by the average of 114 stations across the state - reached 8.9 inches of water on New Year’s Day Sunday, according to Natural Resources Conservation Service data. To celebrate, the Utah Office of Tourism and Hyatt Regency Salt Lake City even hung a massive 700" banner on the side of the Hyatt Regency in Downtown Salt Lake City.Snowpack is based on a statistic called snow water equivalent, or the amount of water within the snow that’s fallen on the ground. The end of the season is still a ways away (a few Utah resorts recently announced their extended closing dates around the end of April), but officials are already thrilled about the results so far. On average, the region reports around 500 inches of snowfall each winter. Imagine one car-you got that? Good, now picture nine more stacked on top of it. It might be hard to grasp the concept of more than 700 inches of white stuff, so let us help you picture it. According to an official announcement, this is the earliest the region has recorded such a number since it began keeping track of snowfall back in 1943. On March 20, Utah made history by hitting the highest level of snowfall in record time, as the state announced that Brighton Resort has reached 703 inches of snowfall for the 2022/2023 season (beginning last October) so far.
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