May Snowstorm Lifts Colorado Snowpack From Zeroth Percentile, but Will It Hold?

May snowstorm lifts Colorado snowpack from zeroth percentile, but will it hold?

Colorado waved goodbye to winter with a late-season blast, as a May snowstorm brought more than 2 feet of snow to some areas of the state. But was the storm enough to keep the snowpack above the zeroth percentile? The statewide snowpack is at 25% of median as of May 8, meaning the mountains have one-quarter of the typical amount of snow-water equivalent compared to the median for that specific date. Despite still being on the lower end of snowpa…

#Colorado Water Supply Forecasts Remain Well Below Median Following Early Melt: A record warm and dry winter in Colorado has resulted in one of the most anomalous water years in the SNOTEL observing period — Colorado Snow Survey #runoff #snowpack

Dry snow course Colorado May 2026. Photo credit: NRCS Click the link to read the release on the NRCS website: May 8, 2026 Colorado’s 2026 water year this far has been defined by records across nearly every metric: an anomalously early snowpack peak, rapid melt driven by record March temperatures, snowpack that tracked at-or-near the lowest values in the SNOTEL period of record from January through May 1, and near-record early season precipitati…

Colorado Week in Review for May 10, 2026

awesome + uniting Colorado’s Mighty Argo Cable Car offers moms free admission for Mother’s Day weekend Colorado Avalanche top Minnesota Wild in high-scoring opener Otters vanished from Colorado’s rivers. Now the state wants your help tracking their return awesome + controversy This May snowstorm is one of the largest in Denver history Colorado’s new AI […]