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1 SnowSchool Prediction Contest! Bogus Basin Webcam

2 Test Your “Snowledge!” (snow knowledge)

3 Snow Water Equivalency

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6 How much of the water that you use at home comes from mountain snow?

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9 Who else in Idaho relies on mountain snow for water?

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11 What is a watershed?

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13 Snowpack Prediction Contest December - April Can your classroom accurately 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!

14 The New SnowSchool Weather Station will Measure the Snow

15 SnowSchool Weather Station Links: http://snowschool.squarespace.com/snowschool- snowpack-prediction/ http://mesowest.utah.edu/cgi- bin/droman/meso_base_dyn.cgi?stn=WWA01

16 Also to help you: SNOTEL is a system of weather stations that measure snowpack depth and water equivalent. There is a SNOTEL near Bogus Basin.

17 Link to SNOTEL data http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/reportGenerator/view/customSingleStationRe port/daily/978%3Aid%3ASNTL/- 7%2C0/WTEQ%3A%3Avalue%2CSNWD%3A%3Avalue%2CPREC%3A%3 Avalue%2CTOBS%3A%3Avalue%2CTMAX%3A%3Avalue%2CTMIN%3A %3Avalue%2CTAVG%3A%3Avalue

18 To make your prediction it can be helpful to know the snowpack levels at Bogus Basin SNOTEL in past winters.

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20 Deepest snow last year = 76 in on April 2nd Greatest water equivalent last year = 25.4 inches on April 7 2014

21 2013 50 inches on Feb 26 14.4 inches on March 27

22 2012 68 inches on Mar 21 22.1 inches on April 2

23 Now its your turn to make a prediction! Go to: http://snowschool.squarespace.com/snowschool-follow- up-project/http://snowschool.squarespace.com/snowschool-follow- up-project/ Send your prediction to- kmcclay@winterwildlands.org


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