Fellow E-10ers:
What a great group of water flow students/followers we have out there this (most unusual) of water flow years, who are following the slow flow with as much care as I am!!
Gang: Here's the reason not to panic with this year's low and slow runoff, however:
1. This year we have exactly one half (1/2) of the snow pack of last year (the black line on chart).
2. Because of the cold May weather this year, the runoff has been delayed/non-existent, leaving much of the snow pack still resident on in the upper elevations.
3. If we had "normal May weather" this year (May temperatures have been an average of 20 degrees below normal in 2010 [global warming?!?]), all of the snow in the upper climes would have been fully melted off by now, leaving us with unusually low waters come E-10....that is not the case, however.
4. The low, delayed flow (the red line on our graph) shows that there is still plenty of moisture in the upper elevations (Kathy said it snowed again on the upper elevations of Rock Creek just the other night), meaning that we will have plenty of water for our fishing in just a few weeks.
Ergo, panic not, but, rather, be thankful for the bounty that Mother Nature is carefully and slowly laying down for all E-10ers!!
RCR----<'///><
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