Snowpack at 114% after weekend storms hit Rockies; will we see a repeat of wet winter?
It’s still more than seven weeks before the official start of winter (Dec. 21), but weekend storms in Colorado’s high country are reason enough to look in on snowpack levels that will eventually provide the water that flows to Lake Mead. A month into the 2023 “water year,” snowpack levels are slightly above normal in the Upper Colorado River Basin: 114% as of Nov. 1, according to data on the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s website. The water year runs from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30 each year. … But much of the snow came to the Front Range, extending from Colorado Springs to Denver, Boulder and Fort Collins. That snow will feed reservoirs for those cities, but won’t make a difference for the Colorado River as it carries water to the West, through Lake Powell, Lake Mead and eventually on to Mexico.
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