Premium ContentMouse over Home then click on Premium Content for information.Hard to believe, but Nebraska's the only state in the Great Plains with significant snow cover. The National Snow Analysis map indicates some snow on the ground in North Dakota, but otherwise, the Plains are generally barren.
The Hastings office of the National Weather Service notes that the deepest snow cover in the entire region stretches from northeast Colorado to southern Nebraska.
The amount of water locked up in that snow is equal to only about an inch, according to the Hastings weather service office. Most of that water is expected to soak into the ground, so there's little late-winter threat of flooding.
Source: National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center/National Weather Service and Hastings office of the National Weather Service.
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