Click the link to read the article on The Denver Post website (Bruce Finley). Here’s an excerpt:
Colorado’s mountain snowpack measured 109% of the 30-year norm on Monday after lagging earlier this winter, setting up potentially healthy water supplies. March snowstorms bolstered the snowpack, which typically peaks in mid-April before melting intensifies.
“We’re sitting pretty right now,” National Weather Service meteorologist Caitlyn Mensch said. “We’re above 100% everywhere, which is positive to see as we head into spring.”
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On Monday, those federal measurements of “snow water equivalent” – the amount of water held in the snow – showed snowpack at 108% of the norm in the closely-watched Upper Colorado River Basin.
The snowpack in the South Platte River Basin, which supplies metro Denver and the farms and ranches across northeastern Colorado, has reached 114% of the norm, data shows. Before last week’s heavy snow along the Front Range, that basin was at 96% of the norm.
In the Arkansas River Basin that supplies farms on the southeastern Colorado plains, the snowpack measured 111%…
The Upper Rio Grande River in southern Colorado had a snow-water equivalent of 101%, data shows.
Southwestern Colorado mountains had a combined snow-water level of 103% of the norm in the San Miguel, Dolores, Animas, and San Juan river basins.
The Gunnison River Basin was at 103%; the Yampa and White river basins at 113%…
… and, the Laramie and North Platte basin at 106%.
Click the link to read “These Colorado areas got the most snow in last week’s storm” on the Fort Collins Coloradoan website (Ignacio Calderon). Here’s an excerpt:
Top 10 snowfall reports in Colorado
- Aspen Springs in Gilpin County: 61.5 inches
- Evergreen (5.4 miles northwest) in Clear Creek County: 61.0 inches
- Aspen Springs (1 mile west) in Gilpin County: 57.0 inches
- Rollinsville (1.1 miles south-southwest) in Gilpin County: 54.4 inches
- Idaho Springs (4.7 miles south-southeast) in Clear Creek County: 53.7 inches
- Nederland (4 miles east-northeast) in Boulder County: 53.0 inches
- Rollinsville (0.1 miles west-northwest) in Gilpin County: 50.7 inches
- Pinecliffe (4 miles south-southeast) in Jefferson County: 50.7 inches
- Pinecliffe (2.5 miles west-northwest) in Boulder County: 48.1 inches
- Nederland (4.3 miles east-northeast) in Boulder County: 47.5 inches
