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The water year 2023-24 is showing signs of being one of the warmest on record, according to a state climatologist who presented the latest water data to the states water

Residents living along Colorados northern Front Range and Northeastern Plains experienced a pretty wet year, and water experts expect this winter isnt likely to be much different.

Thanks to heavy winter snows and a rainy spring, Colorado’s system of water reservoirs hit 100% of normal this month, the fullest they’ve been in three years, according to the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). Last year at this time, reservoirs were just 80% of normal. “This is gr

Colorado is awash in white this spring, with statewide snowpack topping 140% of average this week, well above the reading a year ago, when it stood at just 97% of normal. “Conditions in the American...

Colorado is awash in white this spring, with statewide snowpack topping 140% of average this week, well above the reading a year ago, when it stood at just 97% of normal. “Conditions in the American...

The snow is deepest in the southwestern part of the state, where the San Juan/Dolores River Basin is seeing a snowpack of 179% of average. Such deep mountain snow is good news, but what really matters is how reservoirs and soil moisture are replenished when it melts.

Deep mountain snow is good news, but what really matters is how reservoirs and soil moisture are replenished when it melts.

While a third year of warmer and drier conditions through the winter is likely, theres a sliver of hope that cooler and wetter conditions could develop by summer 2023.

The moment wasn’t celebrated with champagne or noisemakers, but the start of this month marked the end of one water year and the start of another.

The best summer for precipitation since 2014 produced rare optimism among one of the states water watchers, but it is tempered with concerns about a third straight La Niña fall,