Climate Data Description
Restoration Planning: These data are potentially useful for
determining climatic variables that affect revegetation projects, or projects
involving hydrologic factors, such as stream reconstruction projects.
Data Description: From the Western
Regional Climate Center, long term records of temperature and precipitation
at an individual station including averages, extremes, snowfall, snow depth,
heating degree days and cooling degree days. Period of record data tables for
individual stations available. Information is available for the following
stations in the Upper Clark Fork Basin: Butte, Anaconda, East Anaconda, Deer
Lodge, Drummond, Phillipsburg, Missoula. (State-wide maps are also available from their
home page).
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Restoration Planning: This information is potentially useful for
monitoring current conditions during a restoration project, for example, to plan
an irrigation schedule, or to monitor current river levels.
Data Description From the NRIS
Mapper: This site shows
locations for National Weather Service, Surface Weather
Observation Stations and provides links to the real
time data.. The National Weather Service provides online, real time
data for a variety of surface observation stations in Montana and other parts of
the northwest. Shape files of station locations are also available for download
from NRIS Mapper.
Stations in the Upper Clark Fork Basin and the weather station type are listed
below. (explanations of the various types of weather stations are provided on these
links)
| Weather Station Name |
Weather Station Type |
| Anaconda |
COOP - National Cooperative Observer Program |
| Barker
Lakes |
SNOTEL - Snow telemetry from NRCS |
| Basin
Creek |
SNOTEL - Snow telemetry from NRCS |
| Butte |
METAR - Weather observation from National Weather Service |
| Clark
Fork above Missoula |
RIVER - Stage data from the USGS |
| Deer
Lodge |
AGRIMET - Weather observations from US Bureau of
Reclamation |
| Garrison |
DOT - Weather observations from Department of
Transportation |
| Warm
Springs |
SNOTEL - Snow telemetry from NRCS |
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Restoration Planning: This data is potentially useful for
monitoring current conditions during a restoration project, or for investigating
past conditions at a site.
Data Description From the NRIS Drought Site:
Links to a number of different drought-related data products (indices and maps)
from other sources including NRCS, NOAA, USGS, National Drought Mitigation
Center, and DNRC. Coverage is on the state and national level.
Statewide maps from these sites include surface water supply index, monthly
percent of normal precipitation, precipitation for water year, daily stream flow
conditions, snow water equivalent, stream flow prospect maps. Regional or
national scale maps include Palmer drought severity index, current crop moisture
index, standardized precipitation index, drought impact, snowpack, and daily stream flow
conditions maps. Monthly water supply reports from Montana DNRC are also
available.
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