Memories of the recent drought are being re-kindled in Southern Colorado. Here's a report from the Durango Herald. They write, "State climatologist Roger Pielke said it is a classic La Niña pattern, though he said too much of the current balmy weather - upper 60s in Denver - shouldn't be attributed to cooling in the eastern Pacific. He said the south is facing conditions comparable to the drought of 2002. The snowpack in the Rio Grande Basin was 35 percent of the 30-year average, the San Miguel-Dolores-Animas and San Juan only 50 percent. The statewide average, driven by snows in the north, was 107 percent of average.
"Snowfall has been below average along the urban Front Range even while it was snowing in the mountains. Denver got only 0.35 inches, about half the normal, in December. In November 0.48, also about half. Because they get most of their water from the mountains there is no threat - yet."
Category: Colorado Water
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