ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We appreciate efforts and commitment to the long term collection of high quality records in Reynolds Creek Experimental Watershed by researchers and technicians in the US Agricultural Research Service. The research was funded by the NSF funded ND EPSCoR (NSF grant #IIA-135466) to THM and by the Canadian Natural Science and Engineering Research Council post-doctoral fellowship to KR. We would like to thank two anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments on an earler version of this paper.
Data Availability. The data that support the findings of this study are openly available from the anonymous ftp site ftp://ftp.nwrc.ars.usda.gov/publications/wrr/rme‐25yr‐data maintained by the USDA Agricultural Research Service, Northwest Watershed Research Center, in Boise, Idaho (Reba et al., 2011a). The data for climatic teleconnection patterns were downloaded from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Earth System Research Laboratory (NOAA) website (http://www.esrl.noaa.gov).