Click the link to read the article on the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel website (Dennis Webb):
March 9, 2025
Statewide snowpack, which becomes spring runoff that serves agricultural and municipal needs, stood at 90% of normal as of Friday morning, according to the Natural Resources Conservation Service Colorado Snow Survey program. Accumulation amounts continue to show a distinct north-south split. Northern basins are performing better as is typical in winters such as this one that have La Niña climate patterns marked by colder-than-normal surface ocean temperatures in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean.
Snowpack in the Colorado River Basin headwaters in Colorado stood at 101% of median as of [March 7, 2025], the Yampa-White River-Little Snake basins were at 96% of median, and the South Platte Basin was at 106% of median. Farther south, the Gunnison River Basin was at 89% of median; the Arkansas River Basin, 76%; the Upper Rio Grande Basin, 66%; and the San Miguel/Dolores/Animas/San Juan basins, 69%.
Grand Mesa continues to lag behind in snowpack levels. An NRCS measurement station at Mesa Lakes shows snowpack at 81% of normal, but the Park Reservoir and Overland Reservoir stations farther east are at just 69% and 66% of normal, respectively. The current streamflow forecast for this spring and summer at Surface Creek at Cedaredge calls for flows of just 57% of normal.