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Pacific NW SNOTEL snowpack for Columbia River Basin

weekly snow-water-equivalent % of normal across Columbia Basin sites feeding BPA hydro

Feed detail
Measures
weekly snow-water-equivalent % of normal across Columbia Basin sites feeding BPA hydro
Source
USDA NRCS SNOTEL network API + NIDIS US Drought Monitor
Access
json-api
Cadence
weeklyupdates roughly weekly
Thesis
Winter snowpack directly forecasts spring/summer Columbia River hydro generation available to BPA and the Mid-C hub 3-6 months ahead of runoff
Maps to
Mid-Columbia (Mid-C) forward power prices, BPA hydro surplus/deficit
Crowdedness
contested
Tier
tA
Ban-risk
ban:none
Where this stands

This is a catalogued data feed with a research idea attached, not a validated edge. Being listed here means it has a specific source and a one-sentence causal mechanism mapped to what it should move — it doesn’t mean it has cleared the five-stage validation gate (point-in-time hygiene, out-of-sample holdout, multiple-testing correction, and the portfolio-layer backstop). As of today, every score on this site is prior-only; zero signals in the catalog have been promoted to “measured” status. See the methodology page for the full validation process and current counts.

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