Archive for Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Snowpack declining in southern Colorado
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Denver — Heavy mountain weather in January helped reverse some of the poor snowpack conditions in major basins on the west side of the Continental Divide. However, conditions worsened in the Arkansas and Upper Rio Grande basins in southern Colorado.
According to the National Resources Conservation Service Feb. 1 report, snowpack statewide was 72 percent of average and 62 percent of the reading taken Feb. 1, 2011.
State conservationist Phyllis Phillips said the Pacific jet stream has shifted south and by the middle of January was delivering much needed precipitation to southern Wyoming and northern and central Colorado.
However, the storms weren’t enough to boost snowpack statewide, she said in a news release.
Read the full story at The Denver Post.
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