Recent warm weather has led to a decline in the amount of liquid water contained in Colorado's snowpack on average over the last several days. This is about 2 weeks early.

The Colorado snowpack is down to the 5th percentile, meaning it is lower than 95% of historical levels for this time of year. The statewide average sits at a mere 58%.

According to the latest data from the U.S. Drought Monitor, more than 50% of Colorado is currently experiencing drought. The ...

Colorado’s snowpack and reservoir storage as of May 1 compared the conditions last year. ... 2025 Colorado Drought Monitor from NOAA shows some degree of drought conditions across most of the ...

The Western Slope is in one of the worst dry seasons in recent years.  Raquel Flinker, the director of Interstate and ...

With monsoon season still off on the horizon, the outlook for water and drought conditions in southwestern Colorado is not ...

In the late 2010s, when Assistant Professor Flavio Lehner worked for the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, ...

The Comanche National Grassland rewards visitors with the chance to follow dinosaur tracks and feel the spine-tingling thrill ...

A warm, mostly dry start to spring and rapidly melting snowpack are expected to bring low streamflows across Western Colorado. “Going back into March, snowpack was near normal in the northern half of ...