Warm weather and lack of precip results in slow start to winter

Press release

BOZEMAN — Although winter weather and some snow has come back to Montana, it is late in the season as far as snowpack is concerned.

“Warm temperatures and lack of precipitation over the last couple months have resulted in a bleak start to the seasonal snowpack in Montana and northern Wyoming river basins,” said Eric Larson, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service water supply specialist.

Water year 2024 began with a mid-October snowstorm that brought about two to five inches of precipitation to part of northern Wyoming and southern Montana. Totals from that storm were less ac...