Colorado snowpack is at 751 percent. But the images truly tell the story.
The differences have every bit as much to do with 2019’s epic winter as much as 2018’s abysmal one
By Chris Bianchi WeatherNation TV
PUBLISHED: June 15, 2019 at 6:00 am | UPDATED: June 15, 2019 at 10:59 pm
You probably know at least some of the crazy stats by now.
Colorado is at 751 percent of its typical June 14th snowpack, as of Friday. In at least four of Colorado’s eight river basins, that figure is over 1,000 percent. In virtually every numerical sense, Colorado’s mid-June snowpack is off the charts. In 2018, Colorado suffered through one of its worst winters in recent memory, helping fuel a summer and fall drought and wildfires.
By mid-June 2018, virtually all of Colorado’s winter snowfall had already melted off.
But images truly tell the story about how dramatic the difference is between a year ago and now. Local meteorologist Dakota Smith posted these eye-catching earlier this week, showing the stark before-and-after contrast.
https://www.denverpost.com/2019/06/15/colorado-snowpack-images/
