what he said. I am also trying to figure this out. I gotta say:

There is no Mount Adams Station.  Here are the stations which are close:

Potato Hill: http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/nwcc/site?sitenum=702&state=wa
Surprise Lake: http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/nwcc/site?sitenum=804&state=wa

These web pages have current and historical data for the sites.  The most relevant graph is the "daily" "snow water equivalent".  Here it is for the Surprise Lake station:



As you can see - its not that bad.

You can also get basin wide snowpack reports here: http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/cgibin/snow_rpt.pl?state=washington

Also, a basin-wide map for the columbia basin: http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/ftpref/support/snow/snowpack_maps/columbia_river/wy2010/cusnow1003.gif

Good data here, too: http:///www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/snow/snotel-wereports.html

So, bottom line.  Mount adams has an average snowpack.  Better off than the rest of the state (other than north cascades and the OP).

http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/cgibin/ploticus/plot.pl?cgi=1&-debug&-png&TITLE=SURPRISE%20LAKES&FILE=/ftp/data/cache/wygraph-multi/21c13s.out&WATERYEAR=2010&wy.line.multi.plt

Thanks for the insight Leif. I have a feeling that things aren't going to be as bad as everyone wants to make it, but I'm hoping that I can find data that will speak for its self.

There's a lot less snow on Hwy 2 than I've seen in many years, and I've never seen the Deception Falls parking area snow free.

Here is the site I generally use. ftp://ftp.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/data/snow/update/wa.txt
 I'm not sure if this is one of Leafs links or not, however, it has proved to be accurate and simple for me over the years.
For example Brett - Stevens Pass is at 64% (snow water equivalent) whereas the entire basin feeding the Wenatchee is at 78%. And you can see, Stevens is a pretty small contributor to the Wenatchee's water supply.
And for the WS. The potato hill (106%) and suprise lakes (94%) are doing well above the lower columbia basin (79%).
We have a lot of high elevation snow. The snow below 4000' (stevens pass) has melted a lot due to the warm weather while the upper level snow has been effected less.
Another place people often get confused (or the media uses misleading info) is the difference between snow depth (see http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/sew/get.php?wfo=sew&pil=CLI&sid=SNO ) and snow water equivalent. Often times it will rain at a certain elevation and compact/consolidate the snow. The overall depth of the snow is significantly less, however it is holding more water. What happens next is the most important thing for the snow pack. If the rain is followed by warm temperature and more rain is all gets flushed down the rivers. If it gets cold afterwards (like this year after October ended) the rain actually helps increase the snow water equivalent (sponge effect). We have not had any real flood events since Oct/early Nov. Most of the snow that has come since is still up there. Hence we have not has good levels for a while.
Another thing to note. If you look at the numbers on the far right it shows the avg precipitation. For the most part, the numbers are pretty similar (snow pack vs precip).
The site gets updated every day. It will be neat to see where it is at say next Monday......( http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=sew&wwa=winter%20storm%20watch )Winter Storm watch in effect with another 1-2 feet of snow (Fri-Sat) on top of the 2-3 feet we got Sun-Tue. I bet the Wenatchee snow pack is at 85% by next weekend.

Thanks WA. Your explanation of the snow water equivalent cleared up a lot of things for me.

Thanks, Darren.

I should point out that California got all the snow this year. Who wants to road trip down there this spring?

Wierd ... http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/nwcc/site?sitenum=702&state=wa



I was going to add that 2005 looked much worse than any recent year.

I must not have gotten it.