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Environment & Energy

flashman13

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8. Toward the end he says something about a good snow pack this year could help to recharge the lake.

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Sun Feb 8, 2026, 04:16 PM

2 hrs ago

Right now the chances of that are slim to none. For the interior west east of the Rockies this has been the no winter winter. Unprecedented hardly describes this year's extremely warm winter temperatures. Right now the snow pack in the watershed that supplies the Colorado River is extremely sparse. While there is a possibility that a couple of good storms could improve the situation, the trend is not in that direction. There is roughly only eight weeks left for that to happen.

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Toward the end he says something about a good snow pack this year could help to recharge the lake. flashman13 2 hrs ago #8