While some producers are getting rain, others in the west are already receiving snow!
USDA Meteorologist Brad Rippey says that La Niña still has not developed, but this current bit of snow in the western mountain ranges is what you would expect from it.
According to Rippey, “Always good to see that early season accumulation of high-elevation snowpack. That helps to set the stage for additional accumulation later in the season, and so off to a good start now in places like the Cascades, the Northern Rockies. We’ve even seen some ski areas starting to open as far south as Colorado, where there’s been some snow as well.”
The beginning of that snowpack is of course good news for those areas where it acts as much needed source
of water come Spring.
