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While many areas of western Montana received some much needed snow this week, a lot more will be needed to build record-low snowpack levels up to anything near normal.
At the beginning of January more than half of NRCS snow monitoring stations in Montana and surrounding river basins reported their lowest snowpack on record. The exception was the northern Flathead and Kootenai River basins in Montana where total monthly precipitation was near normal.
At the beginning of January NRCS more than half snow monitoring stations in Montana reported the lowest snowpack on record.As of Feb. 1 snowpack percentages wer