Snowpack

BILLINGS, Mont. — Emergency workers ferried supplies to more than 300 people cut off Friday by flooding that has overwhelmed Montana towns and caused an estimated $8.6 million in damages to date.

Heavy rain and the runoff from record mountain snowpacks have caused rivers over much of the West to spill from their banks. Montana has been hit particularly hard over the past few weeks, with hundreds of homes inundated and scores of roadways swamped.

BOULDER, Colo. -- Deep spring snowpack in parts of the West has given states in the Colorado River basin some relief from drought, but water officials said Thursday there's still work to do to keep water flowing from faucets in the future.

Before this year, there was a "serious possibility" that a shortage would be declared next year of water for California, Arizona and Nevada, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Mike Connor said. That has been deferred until at least 2015, he said.

DENVER -- Officials are warming that a deep snowpack and warming temperatures in the Rocky Mountain West could combine to unleash large and dangerous avalanches.

FARMINGTON — The Davis County Commission has issued a flood advisory for those living near the Farmington Canyon to keep an eye on their property this spring.

OGDEN -- Snowpacks in the Wasatch Mountains are at near-record-high levels and there is real danger of flooding along the Weber and Logan rivers, but the National Weather Service says there won't be any flooding if the weather Sunday turns mild and drier.