The snowpack Colorado's Northern mountains is the deepest and wettest in a long time (since 1997), according to the Rocky Mountain News [December 24, 2005, "North Rockies awash in snow"]. The mountains are, "awash in white stuff, with regional snowpacks registering their deepest in eight years, according to the Natural Resources Conservation Services. But in a bit of climactic extremism, the southwestern part of the state is abnormally dry, leaving the statewide snowpack about average entering the new year...
"The Upper Colorado and the South Platte river basins - which supply metro Denver - are registering 140 percent and 137 percent of average, respectively, as of Thursday...
"Aurora's reservoirs - like others - have begun to refill to pre-drought levels and have reached 64 percent of their normal capacity, the highest they've been at this time of year since 1999, Elliott said."
Category: Colorado Water
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