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Watch VideoCurrent Snowpack Numbers Good: Can Change
Story By: Bill Folsom
Source: KOAA
Winter snow equals summer water in Colorado. Eighty percent of Colorado’s fresh water supply comes from mountain snow.
Newly released tracking reports show recent storms have boosted the snowpack in Colorado's mountains. As of January first the statewide snowpack average is at one hundred nine percent of the thirty year average comparison.
Current numbers are good, however the most important months for snowpack remain in months ahead. Natural Resource District Conservationist, Leon Kot says, " We could have a dry spring and we could see ourselves in the situation we saw a couple of weeks ago that we were down below normal, quite a bit below normal.
Conservationists head out at the end of January, February, and March to manually evaluate snow/water equivalents. According to Kot, “It’s going to be April first until we get a good handle on what the snowpack year’s going to look like.”
