Friday, February 10th, 2012

Posts Tagged snowpack

Colorado facing trial by flood and by fire

By David O. Williams | 06.03.11 | 8:24 am

The combination of an enormous mountain snowpack that’s just starting to melt and suddenly hot, summer-like temperatures and high winds has first responders across Colorado nervously eyeing both swollen waterways and tinder-dry forests and grasslands.

Water expert: Snowpack dangerously close to drought levels

By David O. Williams | 01.19.10 | 8:52 am

Badly needed snowfall is expected in Colorado’s high country this week, but one expert says the state will need much more than the amount in the forecast to stave off drought on par with the one that marked the parched…