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Snowpack throughout the state’s major river basins decreased in February, according to a Natural Resources Conservation Service report released Thursday.
The latest snow surveys show statewide snowpack is 89 percent of average. Last year at this time, readings were 81 percent of average.
For the second month in a row, snowpack readings in northern Colorado declined, and they are now slightly above average.
Southern Colorado is posting record-low snowpack readings, jeopardizing water supplies there, the report states.
“For most water users across southern Colorado, this year’s runoff outlook mirrors that of 2002, one of the worst drought years the state has faced in decades,” said Allen Green, the state conservationist.
