Another fast, early melt in the southern mountains
Russ Schumacher As we’ve covered in previous posts, the peak snowpack in Colorado’s mountains generally looked pretty decent this year, with the amount of water stored in the snow peaking pretty close…
Snowpack status as we close in on the peak
Becky Bolinger It’s the beginning of April, which signifies the beginning of the end of our snowpack season. In Colorado, our southern basins typically reach their peak snowpack in the next few…
Winter Precipitation on Colorado’s Northern Front Range: Is it Changing?
Peter Goble Northern Colorado February 3rd, 2024. Photo Credit: Bob Henson. As seen in Yale Climate Connections. Hello, and welcome to meteorological spring (March-May). The month of February just ended, and frankly,…
Colorado mountain snowpack in 2024 so far: decent, fine, ok
We spend a lot of time thinking about snow in our mountains, because Colorado is a headwaters state, and the water stored in that snowpack ends up serving ecosystems, farms,…
Does 80% of Colorado’s precipitation really fall west of the Continental Divide?
For our inaugural post, we’ll take a deep dive into a question that we get asked pretty regularly, and that can cause a fair bit of confusion. (These are the…