Despite a warm and dry start to the season, Utah's statewide snowpack ended meteorological fall slightly above average with 2.8 inches of snow water equivalent. However, meteorological winter typically brings the majority of Utah's annual snowpack.
<p>SALT LAKE CITY — Despite a warm and dry start to the season, Utah 's statewide snowpack ended meteorological fall slightly above average with 2.
8 inches of snow water equivalent.</p><p>However, meteorological fall typically produces hors d'oeuvres when compared to meteorological winter, Utah's main snowpack course. About two-thirds of Utah's mountain snowpack — a calculation of water in fallen snow — falls between the beginning of December and the end of February.</p><p>That's according to the Natural Resources Conservation Service's 30-year median average of data collected from 1991 through 2020. Since about 95% of Utah's water supply comes from the snowpack collection and spring runoff process, the success of meteorological winter often makes or breaks any given water year.</p><p>"That's when we get our most amount of snow, so it's very significant," says Candice Hasenyager, director of the Utah Division of Water Resources, talking about the season that began on Sunday.</p><p>A good winter also matters for snow recreation outdoors, but what's in store this winter remains a bit of a mystery as long-range forecasts offer no clear signal when it comes to precipitation. That's par for the course, though, with the conditions setting up over the Pacific Ocean.</p><p><h2>Utah's winter outlook<
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