Recent storms in Colorado’s high country last month did not dramatically improve what’s still on track to be a record low snowpack season in the Rockies. … Statewide snowpack was hovering at about 62% of normal entering March. … Water managers are already warning of potential water restrictions in the Colorado River basin. Denver Water said that as of March 2, the Colorado River snowpack ranked the second worst since tracking started decades ago. “It is likely that we will need to implement additional drought response measures this year,” the company wrote in a snowpack update this week. 

Other snowpack and water supply news around the West:

• SFGate: ‘Time is rapidly running out’: Calif. snowpack lags in spite of February storms
• The Desert Sun (Palm Springs, Calif.): California snowpack still below average despite winter storms
• KTLA (Los Angeles): California’s snowpack is far behind, and time is running out
• Tahoe Daily Tribune (South Lake City, Calif.): Storm that hit Truckee-Tahoe among snowiest on record
• Sierra Nevada Ally (Carson City, Nev.): How are water managers adapting to a smaller Sierra snowpack?
• Porterville Recorder (Calif.): Friant contractors receive 100 percent allocation
• KTAR (Phoenix): SRP measures snowpack in the Verde River watershed to calculate expected water production