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The snowpack hasn t been this close to its all-time average since 2010, making it an unusual year, especially after last year s record-breaking snowfall.
It's still more than seven weeks before the official start of winter (Dec. 21), but weekend storms in Colorado's high country are reason enough to look in on snowpack levels that will eventually provide the water that flows to Lake Mead.
Western communities are facing effects of a warming climate with slower and earlier snowmelt reducing streamflows and possibly the amount of water reaching reservoirs used for drinking water and agriculture, according to a study published in July.
Ally Fitts is a second-year Master’s student in the Graduate Program of Hydrologic Sciences (GPHS) at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) and is par | Earth And The Environment