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Drought Persists in Colorado: Western Part of State’s Snowpack Drops to 61% of Median, Bringing Statewide Snowpack Down to 79%

Colorado’s snowpack has been drying up in the past few weeks—quickly. The statewide snowpack, calculated as snow water equivalent, is at 79 percent of the to-date median. Part of this number is brought up by the South Platte River Basin (including Denver, Fort Collins, and Boulder) which sits at 100 percent of the to-date median snowpack. But it’s also brought down […]
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Colorado Snowpack Update + What To Expect The Rest of The Season

Depending on where you have been able to ski this season in Colorado, you probably saw two very different snowpacks. La Niña winters are typically hard to predict snowfall patterns in Colorado. The overall trend is that La Niña patterns slightly favor the northern mountains while the southern mountains see slightly warmer and less precipitation than average. Again, this is […]
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Current Colorado Snowpack is Insanely Above Normal

The current Colorado snowpack as measured by SNOTEL is off the charts. One reading yesterday even came up with southwest Colorado having a snowpack 8,650% of normal… Today, the SNOTEL graph left that 8,650% zone without a value so we can assume that was some sort of error. Nevertheless, north central Colorado is sporting a snowpack 585% of average and that’s hugely above average. Central Colorado is at 323% of average, southwest Colorado is at 151% above average, and south central Colorado is at 233% above aver
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