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Spring sunshine and warmth are good unless you’re a regional water official worried about preserving snowpack as long as possible into the summer. The good news is that the snowpack around Colorado is looking.
Spring sunshine and warmth are good unless you’re a regional water official worried about preserving snowpack as long as possible into the summer. The good news is that the snowpack around Colorado is looking.
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Summit County’s mountain landscape is covered in a fresh coating of springtime snow. Despite a wet April, the region is still well behind median snowpack for this winter.
Photo by Joel Wexler
EAGLE For many climate experts, the current drought in Western Colorado is the worst they’ve seen in their lifetimes, and the outlook isn’t great for the coming summer.
Joel Lisonbee who works for the National Integrated Drought Information System, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said drought conditions have been improving in Colorado but primarily on the eastern side of the Continental Divide. He noted that current 90-day outlooks aren’t good for temperature, precipitation and drought tendency.