The Spring Break Up Flood Potential for the Yukon and Koyukuk River is rated as a normal while the Kuskokwim is rated as above normal.
While observers on the Kuskokwim River have reported normal ice thickness, recent reports indicate that river ice has begun to deteriorate, and/or soften in some locations. No freeze-up jams or mid-winter breakups were reported across the Yukon and Kuskokwim River basins.
The Kuskokwim Basin has a normal to above normal snowpack. Telaquana Lake in the far southeast Kuskokwim headwaters is below normal due to a mid-February warm up; McGrath avoided the warm up and is reporting a near normal snowpack. Lower in the basin, between Aniak and Bethel, observers are reporting above normal snowpack.
Link to full report:
https://www.weather.gov/media/aprfc/BreakupProducts/ESFAK_ACR_20240322
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