Where's the Water?
It didn't seem that water levels got that high this spring. I remember in 2006 when the Wenatchee was over 20,000 cfs and the Skykomish peaked at 17,000 cfs or so. I looked at some numbers from the U.S. Geological Survey. As it turns out we had some higher spikes last year. Check out Brian Vogt's blog entry from the spring of 2006. I'm not sure how the 2006 snowpack compares to 2007 (if there are any skiers/boarders out there who keep track of these things please drop me a line), but I thought this year's snowpack was pretty good.
Looks like we won't get much of a bump with the current hot weather. Both the Skykomish and Wenatchee are forecast to fall. Crap, I thought we'd get at least one more weekend of high water. Too bad! I had some epic weekends on the Wenatchee last year. Drunkards/Trinity was monstrous, and Ingalls/Peshastin Creek had some kick too it as well. Such is the will of the river gods.
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the difference in peak flows this year vs last was due to temps. last year, the water went in a week or so. this year, we had a lovely long even melt, with only a few days of really high flows due to heat. was a much better snowmelt period this year, with a much longer window of runnable flows on most snowmelt runs.
--b
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