01-20-16 BOARD Agenda Item 15 PRESS CLIPS TMWA Board Meeting Wednesday, January 20, 2016 Press Clippings December 10, 2015 – January 12, 2016 Katherine Horton (Archie Clayton Middle School) 2010 Poster Art Contest – Honorable Mention, Grades 7-8 01-20-16 BOARD Agenda Item 15 PRESS CLIPS Mt. Rose snowpack numbers give officials optimism Reported by: Jaime Hayden Email:
[email protected] Print Story Published: 1/04 6:19 pm Share Updated: 1/04 6:43 pm MT. ROSE, Nev. (MyNews4.com & KRNV) -- Nevada's first snow survey of the year is in and the numbers are nothing but encouraging after four years of drought. "I'm very happy with the results for this time of year, we're still a long ways from the end of winter and hopefully we continue to get more and more storms,” said Jeff Anderson, Hydrologist with NRCS Nevada. On Monday morning, Hydrologists with the Natural Resources Conservation Service measured 54 inches of snow depth, which equals 15.9 inches of water content at the Mount Rose Summit, making current snowpack 110 percent of normal for this time of year. "Well as opposed to this time last year where it looked like we were just continuing the same pattern that we had seen the previous three years. I can say we are in a different trajectory, we are above average for this time of year,” said Anderson. A year ago, snowpack in the area was nearly half of what it is now, at just 60 percent of normal. And although we're above average for this time of year, hydrologists say we'll need a lot more snow to help our water supply this year.