Colorado Weather: Peak Snowpack Is A Week Away And The Mountains Need More Snow

By Ashton Altieri, CBS Denver:

DENVER (CBS4) – With the average date for peak mountain snowpack just a week away, only two of Colorado’s eight river basins are at or above normal. March was not as snowy in the mountains as it needed to be after a unusually dry January and February. Luckily there will be several chances for more snow in the next week.

As of Thursday morning, statewide snowpack was 8% lower than normal for the final day of March. That is largely because of the basins that include the northwest mountains around Steamboat Springs, Walden, Craig, and Meeker as well as the southwest mountains around Telluride and Durango.

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