Eyeing the Glass is Half Full SWE

However, the models have proven correct, and the powers have tilted SWE in our favor. On a call early today with Anchorage-based Alex Lee, the good folks in AK do not want frozen precipitation. So there is that. For those in the lower 48: we are wanting. But, perhaps, we want slightly less than we did 48 hours ago, as the promised troughs rolling off the Pacific deliver.  

We temper our optimism with the reality that a powder day, or even a handful of powder days, doesn’t shift the possibility of severe drought in the West towards a less bleak prognosis. But, the prognosis is shifting—and we are psyched. 

Here’s a SWE snapshot from the USDA’s National Water and Climate Center