Colorado’s map is all blues and greens this morning. Compare that with the map for last Wednesday. Thank you Pineapple Express.
From The Pueblo Chieftain (Matt Hildner):
The snows, which started over the weekend, continued to pound the high country, dropping 12 inches of new snow at Wolf Creek Ski Area by midafternoon. So far, this storm system has dropped 82 inches of snow on the ski area…
The snow also has been a welcome site for irrigators and water managers to the east in the San Luis Valley, boosting snowpack above the valley’s two major river systems. “The Rio Grande and the Conejos, they’re looking good right now,” said Craig Cotten, the division engineer for the valley. That’s a change from just a week ago when the snowpack in the upper Rio Grande was at 71 percent of average. Wednesday that figure was at 105 percent, according to the Natural Resources Conservation Service.