Spring Plans Meet Snow in Denver
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Colorado's snowpack has reached its lowest levels in more than 40 years, raising significant concerns for water availability across the state's Western Slope. The record-low numbers come just as weather forecasters predict a heat dome will bring high ...
As Colorado’s snowpack tracked near record-lows all winter long, state climatologists pointed to two previous winters that had potentially been worse than this year: the seasons of 1976-77 and 1980-81. Now, after an “unprecedented” spring heat wave ...
A new study out of Western Colorado University has implications for the wildfire season ahead as nearly the entire West faces record-low snowpack conditions. The paper, published last month in the peer-reviewed journal “Environmental Research Letters ...