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Colorado’s statewide snowpack still below normal after storms; South Platte basin recovers

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Colorado’s statewide snowpack as of Thursday despite storms over the past several weeks .

The Natural Resources Conservation Service showed the statewide pack at 96 percent of normal and 93 percent of the median.

Snow levels are 23 percent higher than they were at the same point last year.

The NRCS reports, however, that snowpack levels in the South Platte River basin since dipping below normal earlier this month.

The basin includes Denver and nearly all of the metro area.

The South Platte’s snowpack as of Thursday was 6 percent above normal and 5 percent above the median.

Jesse Paul: 303-954-1733, jpaul@denverpost.com or @JesseAPaul

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