Last week’s storms brought on excitement in Summit County as the first ski areas began to open, and this week will follow up with mainly sunny skies and warmer temperatures. OpenSnow reported that 10 inches.
Another snowstorm is on its way to Colorado Wednesday that is expected to further bolster the quickly-increasing snowpack in the mountains and bring a couple of inches of snow to the plains.
For Steamboat Pilot & Today
Routt and Moffat counties continue to be in extreme and exceptional drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, perpetuating from the hottest and driest summer on record last year. Dry antecedent conditions like these are troubling heading into any winter, but combined with what is turning out to be a snow drought winter season across the western U.S., which is how forecasters are characterizing the current dry and cold La Nina winter conditions, we are likely and gravely looking ahead to a drier and hotter 2021 summer season. The effects of climate change are known to us here in the Upper Yampa River Basin.