Amid mounting challenges to Colorado’s water supply, lawmakers are seeking to upgrade the decades-old method of tracking the ...

After a strong early season, January brought drier than normal conditions throughout most of the state, leading to a decrease ...

With summer just underway here in North America, it may seem like a strange time to talk about snow. But when you live ... With the NRCS interactive SNOTEL map showing a few sites within ...

The Colorado River relies heavily on snowpack in the Upper Basin states — Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming — that melts ...

Our weekly statewide snowpack numbers are out and they don't look good for southwestern areas of Colorado. Of the eight main river basins across Colorado, seven of them are below normal with the ...

The snowpack in Colorado’s central mountains is currently at 108% of the 30-year median, based on data from SNOTEL stations, which measure snow water equivalent (SWE). While this figure suggests an ...

The Natural Resources Conservation Service's (NRCS) SNOTEL network measured an astounding average of 3.5 inches of snowpack across the state of Colorado in November. The most since four inches of ...

According to a May 2024 article from Colorado State University, nearly every long-term snowpack ... flights to map river basins across the West. Deems said lidar isn’t replacing SNOTEL, which ...