Summit County is nearing when its snowpack measuring sites hit 0. How’s the melt off this year as a heat wave nears?

Summit County is nearing when its snowpack measuring sites hit 0. How’s the melt off this year as a heat wave nears?

After a year of peaks and valleys, the mountains in Summit County are still holding onto a sliver of its frozen water storage, but it likely won’t last long.  Snowpack measuring sites on June 16 registered less than 1 inch of snow water equivalent, which is the amount of liquid water trapped in its snowpack. The 30-year median for the sites hitting zero is June 20, and there is typically just under an inch of snowpack left by June 16 each year. …