LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) - Wyoming has not seen as much snow as it usually does and is far below average snowpack levels this year, weather forecasters said.
Jim Fahey, a Wyoming hydrologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, said it has been a drier than normal fall season for the most of the state, KUWR-FM reported.
“Except, you know, as far northwest, there’s the only places that we’ve seen any normal to above normal snow, still water equivalent averages,” he said.
Fahey said Wyoming has seen dry falls in past years where the precipitation picks up in at the end of December or early January, noting that the state is currently in a La Niña winter pattern.
“Usually as far as a snowpack is, and then for people worried about skiing, usually it’s from northwest Wyoming, the northern part it usually picks up pretty pretty quickly, and we usually get a pretty good snowpack,” he said.
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