Greetings, all, from E-13's intergalactic headquarters where I can assure
you first hand that 2013's runoff has officially begun!!
We begin this year's runoff with the current flowage at 556 cubic feet per
second ("cfs". For a visual of the flow now twice what it was a month ago,
see the Log O Meter in my next missive to you.
Just overnight, with weather yesterday in the high 60's (today, by contrast
it is in the low 40's), our barometer Rock Creek's river level has
noticeably risen and its color deteriorated from an opalescent green to a
quickly developing cocoa color, marking the advent of this year's rite of
passage.
And with that passage now arrives our annual and attached Flow Chart that,
tri-weekly, will follow the path of this year's runoff. As in the past, the
current year's runoff will be posted in red so you can instantly see the
comparison to the bell weather high runoff in 2011 and the lowest of lows
during 2007.
What we are looking for ideally, gang, is a bell chart that tracks our
black-lined 2009 runoff. We are starting as we did that special year with
snow pack in the high eighty percentiles...what we now wait to see is just
what the temperatures will be during this May, as that is the driver of just
how fast and how soon all of that upper altitude snow mass will find its way
downhill and downstream.
Again, our goal is to have the flow between 1500 and 1800 cfs come June
15th...hmm, I wonder what Mother Nature has in store for Mother Montana this
year!
Best to all from the scene of it all,
Rock Creek Ron
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