Moisture in the Missouri Coteau

RLLigman

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We have had a number of low pressure fronts roll down the U.S./Canada border thus far, with very little noteworthy precipitation associated with them:

https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/




Not looking very promising..
 
Here is the North American drought monitor. I had intended to post this initially but the US monitor closer to real time. This is a better representation of the extent of the problem, while not being an up-to-date depiction of actual severity:

202102_nadm-en.pdf (unl.edu)
 
Hopefully this indicates that the jetstream has shifted north... the forecast for Minot, ND calls for 3-8" over the next three days. Overnight temps. low enough to provide some level of frost seal to enable runoff to accumulate in the wetlands. The bad news is the precipitation isn't extending that far north into Canada.
 
I was hoping you were back home by now to offer comment. The forecasts of up to 12" appear to be a little over exuberant??? That low has "walked north-northeast for two days over us and then actually backed slowly to the northwest toward you. We have had four days of either intermittent snow or rain from it. Shut the steelheading down due to highwater muddy river conditions peninsula wide.


Did you ever decide on a layout boat?
 
RLLigman said:
I was hoping you were back home by now to offer comment. The forecasts of up to 12" appear to be a little over exuberant??? That low has "walked north-northeast for two days over us and then actually backed slowly to the northwest toward you. We have had four days of either intermittent snow or rain from it. Shut the steelheading down due to highwater muddy river conditions peninsula wide.


Did you ever decide on a layout boat?

Please send some high muddy water east. Our snowpack is gone, and streamflows are dropping towards summer levels already. We won't refill storage reservoirs this spring without a bunch of spring rain.
 
John, that was quite a windfall, particularly considering the quality and utility of UFO layouts. Congratulations!

From a direct observer, what is the wetland condition overall out there this spring? I generally hunt from Max up to Lostwood NWR west of you..
 
Well I came up for early spring snow goose conservation, when I got here every body of water is low. There is also a burn ban, do to drought conditions.The farmers are gaining back lots of land. Generally the major skews have water but the flag ponds that occur in the spring thaw are non existent. The little bit of snow did nothing. But the canada geese are sitting on nests already. Got on the snow geese one day, nothing big but a fun hunt. Because of the little amount of snow this year the pheasant are abundant. Most I've seen in ten years. View attachment 20210410_131321.jpgView attachment 20210410_131807.jpg
 
Summary effects of what little moisture did fall this spring indictes that the drought is intensifying in the central counties of North Dakota...precipitation events in these surface soil moisture conditions generally convert rainfall events to verga...
 
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