A series of Pacific storms will pummel the Cascades and Sierra Nevada for the next few days and produce flooding along the West Coast. Over the next week, the snow is forecast to spread throughout the Intermountain region, including the mountains of Idaho, the Great Basin, the Wasatch Front of Utah and the Rocky Mountain corridor.
Snowfall has been far below normal throughout most of the American West this winter, endangering its varied ecosystems and the water supply of its cities. These storms are expected to significantly boost the mountain snowpack across that region, a welcome development as we approach March.
Of course, higher elevations of the West can generally expect more snow through the spring and peak snowmelt does not generally begin before mid-late May. Hopefully, this vital recovery will continue until then.
