The weather people were lecturing us last month on how it was going to be a dry winter. They have since shut up. March is our wettest month, and we're already over 150 percent of snowpack in some places.
What's especially intersting is that the Aspen ski resort and other resorts have begun to circulate posters and flyers suggesting that global warming with destroy the ski industry within a few years, and that very soon, it will be raining in January at 10,000 feet above sea level. Right. Sure. Meanwhile the resorts are enjoying the best snow they've seen in over 10 years:
The state snowpack, an indicator of summer water supplies, is the best it's been in more than 10 years, and a string of recent snowstorms has all of southern Colorado more than 150 percent of average.But drought years seem a distant memory as the Upper Rio Grande Basin boasts 173 percent of average snowpack, best in the state; and the South Platte River Basin, the state's lowest watershed currently, is at 101 percent.
