SnowSchool Prediction Contest! Bogus Basin Webcam.

SnowSchool Prediction Contest!

Bogus Basin Webcam

Test Your “Snowledge!”(snow knowledge)

Snow Water Equivalency

How much of the water that you use at home comes from

mountain snow?

Who else in Idaho relies on mountain snow for water?

What is a watershed?

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!

SNOTEL is Here to Help You!

SNOTEL is a system of weather stations that measure snowpack

depth and water equivalent. There is a SNOTEL weather

station at Bogus Basin.

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

To make your prediction it can be helpful to know the

snowpack levels at Bogus Basin in past winters.

Deepest snow last year = 76 in on April 2nd

Greatest water equivalent last year = 25.4 inches on April 7

2014 (Last Year)

2013

50 inches on Feb 26

14.4 inches on March 27

2012

68 inches on Mar 21

22.1 inches on April 2

Now its your turn to make a prediction!

Go to: http://snowschool.squarespace.com/snowschool-follow-up-project/

Send your prediction to- [email protected]