Wet spring in much of intermountain West

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Bob Berwyn

Spring storms continue to beef up the snowpack in the northern Rockies.

Big snowpack in northern Rockies, intensifying drought in Southwest

By Summit Voice

SUMMIT COUNTY — It’s the season for western water managers to keep a close eye on the snowpack and projected runoff, and the story in the early spring is the same as it was all winter long — well above average snowfall in the northern sector, with intensifying drought in big parts of the Southwest.

According to the Western Water Assessment, snowfall was significantly above the long-term norms in the northern Colorado mountains, the Wasatch Front in Utah and northern and western Wyoming, while little precipitation fell across central Wyoming, eastern and southern Utah and the plains of Colorado. (more…)

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