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Snowpack on Rabbit Ears Pass stands at 45 percent of average |
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Friday, January 06, 2012 13:28 |
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Photo by Larry Pierce, Steamboat Ski Area
By TOM ROSS, STEAMBOAT PILOT & TODAY
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — The snowpack in the mountains of the Yampa and White River Basins stands at 60 percent of average, but it won’t surprise residents of Steamboat Springs that the snowpack close to home is lower than that.
The statewide snowpack report issued by the Natural Resources Conservation Service on Wednesday showed that the snowpack on the west summit of Rabbit Ears Pass is 45 percent of average for the first week in January. At the Tower measuring site at 10,500 feet on Buffalo Pass, it is 47 percent of average.
“It’s a big change from this year to last year. It definitely doesn’t look like it’s supposed to,” District Conservationist Lori Jazwick said Thursday.
The way in which area residents and frequent visitors perceive the snow accumulation may be influenced by the abundance of snow in January 2011. The Tower site was at 129 percent of average Jan. 29, and at Rabbit Ears, it was at 165 percent of average.
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