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Test Your “Snowledge!”(snow knowledge)
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Snow Water Equivalency
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How much of the water that you use at home comes from
mountain snow?
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Who else in Idaho relies on mountain snow for water?
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What is a watershed?
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Snowpack Prediction ContestDecember - April
Can your classroom correctly predict the amount of snow that we will have at Bogus Basin this year? How about the water equivalent? Closest class wins a pizza party!
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SNOTEL is Here to Help You!
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SNOTEL is a system of weather stations that measure snowpack
depth and water equivalent. There is a SNOTEL weather
station at Bogus Basin.
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Link to SNOTEL data
http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/reportGenerator/view/customSingleStationReport/daily/978%3Aid%3ASNTL/-7%2C0/WTEQ%3A%3Avalue%2CSNWD%3A%3Avalue%2CPREC%3A%3Avalue%2CTOBS%3A%3Avalue%2CTMAX%3A%3Avalue%2CTMIN%3A%3Avalue%2CTAVG%3A%3Avalue
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To make your prediction it can be helpful to know the
snowpack levels at Bogus Basin in past winters.
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Deepest snow last year = 76 in on April 2nd
Greatest water equivalent last year = 25.4 inches on April 7
2014 (Last Year)
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2013
50 inches on Feb 26
14.4 inches on March 27
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2012
68 inches on Mar 21
22.1 inches on April 2
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Now its your turn to make a prediction!
Go to: http://snowschool.squarespace.com/snowschool-follow-up-project/
Send your prediction to- [email protected]