Utah saw hardly a dusting of snow in its first months of the new year, wiping out any gains storms blew in at the end of 2021.
Source: U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service
“We’re still holding out hope that March will bring much-needed snow,” Jordan Clayton, with the NRCS’s Utah Snow Survey, wrote in the report. “As one of Utah’s wettest months, Utah typically gets around three inches of precipitation in the mountains during March, which amounts to roughly 11% of the annual total.”
Reservoir storage in the state is at 53% of capacity, down 14% from this time last year. And NRCS is predicting a dismal runoff season — with some streamflows as low as 20% of normal — unless more winter storms roll in. “This year the Colorado River Basin has experienced extremely variable conditions with a record high snowpack one month, followed by weeks without snow,” said Reclamation Acting Commissioner David Palumbo. “This variable hydrology and a warmer, drier West have drastically impacted our operations, and we are faced with the urgent need to manage at the moment.”
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