The health of our waters is the principal measure of how we live on the land — Luna Leopold
Water Year 2023 in Review — @ColoradoClimate Center
Click the link to access the report on the Colorado Climate website (Russ Schumacher, Becky Bolinger, Peter Goble, Alistair Vierod). Some highlights:
Coolest water year since 2010. Cooler temperatures in fall/winter. Warm final quarter to the water year.
Average statewide temperature: 44.6 ̊F. Coolest in 13 years! Still above the 20th century average
Only the 31st wettest year on record but…Record wet in portions of Weld, Morgan, Boulder, Adams, Denver, Arapahoe, Washington, Elbert, Douglas, and El Paso Counties. Drier than normal for San Luis Valley.
Statewide average: 20.02”. Wettest since 2017. Wet by recent standards, but not compared to the 80’s and 90’s.
Snowpack on April 1 – above average in all basins
Snowpack on May 1 – above average in all basins except the Arkansas
