Tuolumne and Merced Snow Survey Report
The National Park Service just posted the following Snow Survey Report for Yosemite.
“May 1 Snow Survey Results: An impressively wet April has added substantial amounts of water to the snowpack. Some courses gained over 20 inches of water over the month! Overall, the Tuolumne drainage is 179% of average and the Merced drainage is 192% of average ( The difference has more to do with the greater percentage of low elevation courses in the Tuolumne drainage than any real differences in the snowpack). We are about 7% over last year’s water content. Last May, however, had several big storms (350% of average precipitation for the month), so if this May is near average we should be about even with last year by the end of the month.
2006 is the sixth wettest 5/1 snowpack on record for the park. The high elevation snowpack is even more impressive. This is the fourth biggest snowpack on record (behind only 83, 95, and 69) for courses above 7500′. These courses are about 210% of average.”
