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The news was even better for the headwaters of the Colorado River, as that basin was at 107% of normal on March 17 – a welcome development for the seven western states, including New Mexico ...
Barr is well aware that his humble weather station is just a snapshot of the Colorado River basin, and that satellites, lasers and computer models can now calculate how much snow falls basin-wide ...
From California to New England to Europe, many areas of the Northern Hemisphere are approaching a 'snow-loss cliff' due to global warming, researchers say. Spring snowpack has shrunk significantly ...
In most of the West, snowpack [8] [9] has decreased since the 1950s, due to earlier melting and less precipitation falling as snow. The amount of snowpack measured in April has declined by 20 to 60 percent at most monitoring sites in Colorado". [6] "Diminishing snowpack can shorten the season for skiing and other forms of winter tourism and ...
That decreases snowpack—the amount of snow that accumulates over the winter. Since the 1950s, the snowpack has been decreasing in Arizona, as well as most mountainous areas in the Colorado River Basin. Diminishing snowpack can decrease water supplies and shorten the season for skiing and other forms of winter tourism and recreation". [2]
Lake Powell is a water storage facility for the Upper Basin states of the Colorado River Compact (Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico). The Compact specifies that the Upper Basin states are to provide a minimum annual flow of 7,500,000 acre-feet (9.3 km 3) to the Lower Basin states (Arizona, Nevada, and California).
Heavy snow is expected to fall in the mountain and foothill areas of the Denver metro area and the eastern plains Tuesday, Nov, 26, 2024 through Wednesday afternoon. Pueblo-area snow forecast
The Upper Basin covers only 45 percent of the land area of the Colorado River Basin, but contributes 92 percent of the runoff. [57] The entire eastern boundary of the Colorado River Basin runs along the North American Continental Divide and is defined largely by the Rocky Mountains and the Rio Grande Basin.