In the Colorado River Basin, a slow start to the 2014-15 water year

We’re about 20 percent of the way into the fall-winter-spring snow accumulation season in the Colorado River Basin, and the current snowpack upstream of Lake Powell as estimated by the CBRFC is 61 percent of average:

Snowpack above Lake Powell, courtesy CBRFC

Snowpack above Lake Powell, courtesy CBRFC


It is worth remembering, as the Bureau of Reclamation notes in its weekly water supply report (pdf), that “values may vary significantly from week-to-week this early in the water year.”