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National Weather Service: water year below normal across western Montana; outlook shows wet, cool early winter then potential dry spring
Summary
Lianne Allegretto, hydrologist and meteorologist at the National Weather Service Missoula office, told the LEPC that the 2024–25 water year finished below normal across much of western Montana and that several stream gauges were at all-time low values for late September.
Lianne Allegretto, hydrologist and meteorologist at the National Weather Service (NWS) Missoula office, told the Local Emergency Planning Committee on Oct. 14 that the 2024–25 water year finished below normal across much of western Montana and that several stream gauges were at all-time low levels for late September.
Allegretto said wet July and August precipitation helped short-term runoff, but a string of dry, warm months — particularly in the April–May runoff period — reduced snowpack and…
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