It's been a good winter for Utah's snowpack. But how does it compare to other years -- including the biggest snowpack year ever on record?
It will take a lot for us to come anywhere near Utah's biggest-ever year for snowpack and flooding.
In Salt Lake City, underground diversions couldn't handle the onslaught. State Street became a river."We held on to the snow way later than we typically do before we start bringing it down in the mountains," explained Glen Merrill, the hydrologist for the National Weather Service in Salt Lake."Memorial Day weekend in 1983, [the temperature] all of a sudden jumped up into the 90s in the valley and it stayed there.
In 1983, the snow was near its peak on May 20. Sudden high temperatures accelerated the process, and the snow had melted by July 10 — 51 days. It was a lot more snow in a lot less time."The chances for all those things to come to get together at one time are pretty slim," he said.Even if we see 1983 conditions, we likely won't see 1983's damage.
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