With spring just around the corner, snowpack season will soon be ending. Out west, this year’s accumulations have been rather lack-luster.
According to Brad Rippey, “We’ve effectively had one storm that occurred back during earlier in February across the southwest. Beyond that, it has just been drips and drabs from time to time. We’ve seen near-record dryness. Very little, if any, snow on the ground— that is leading to significant spring and summer water supply in areas that depend on runoff from snowpack. That, unfortunately, incorporates significant portions of the Colorado River Basin, which has been trying to claw its way out of long-term drought the last two winters.”
Rippey says that unfortunately, it does not look like these drought trends will end anytime soon.
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