Posted on 03/22/2023 12:03:18 PM PDT by george76
Snowfall and rain expected until end of week in Southwest Colorado..
Southwest Colorado residents expecting warmer spring temperatures may want to hold onto their winter jackets a little longer as more snow is expected throughout the week.
Yet another atmospheric river is passing through Southwest Colorado bringing snow primarily to the higher elevations.
Storms earlier this week have increased Durango’s snow total by 1 to 3 inches, said Scott Stearns, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Grand Junction.
Cortez received about the same amount while Pagosa Springs received slightly more at 5 to 8 inches. Wolf Creek Pass received 24 inches Sunday through midday Tuesday.
Coal Bank and Molas passes were expected to receive about 15 inches through Tuesday, while Purgatory Resort reported 16 inches since Monday morning.
The U.S. Highway 550 mountain corridor north of Durango was expected to close at 5 p.m. Tuesday with no estimated time for reopening as a result of adverse weather conditions. Northbound travelers will encounter a closed gate just north of Purgatory, near Cascade Creek and southbound travelers will encounter a closed gate near Ouray.
U.S. Highway 160 east of Pagosa Springs over Wolf Creek Pass was expected to close at 6 a.m. Wednesday with no estimated time for reopening. Eastbound traffic will be stopped near Treasure Falls and westbound traffic will be stopped just west of Wolf Creek Ski Area near the summit of the mountain pass.
Stearns said snow is likely to occur Wednesday through Thursday morning depending on elevation with the potential for more precipitation over the weekend.
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Coal Bank and Molas passes may receive 1 to 2 feet of snow through Thursday morning while Wolf Creek Pass could receive up to 3 feet.
Temperatures have been lower than normal for this time of year.
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The Colorado Avalanche Information Center rates the San Juan National Forest’s avalanche danger as “extreme” as of 4:30 p.m. Tuesday. An avalanche warning is in effect through Thursday afternoon for the southern San Juan Mountains from the La Plata Mountains to Wolf Creek Pass to Cumbres and La Manga passes.
"They" said Cleveland would be under a glacier by 2000 ...
Does the part of the Colorado that the Animas etc rivers feed into, does that part of the Colorado feed into lake Mead? I didn’t think so
I’m trying to imagine the amount of snow on millions of Rocky Mountain acres, then the snow runoff, yet Lake Meade will be or is still low?
Seems a bit odd.
Mammoth Mountain has received over 800” at the top and announced yesterday that the season will run until AUGUST 1.
That’s because of GLOBAL WARMING, obviously.
Colorado has 24 major tunnels that move water from western Colorado to eastern Colorado under the Continental Divide... water that never gets to Lake Powell..
No wonder why Lake Powell and others are low / not climate charge.. Front range stealing water - legally with a pen..
Where’s all that water going? Denver?
It’s just hard to believe, on good winters from the amount of snow the Rockies and the Sierras receive... And we still have lakes/reservoirs in the west that are low. There must be a hell of a lot of runoff that’s never captured.
Actually the Animas is part of that drainage. It goes south of Durango and turns west to Farmingto and then on to Medicine Hat and the southeast end of Lake Powell. From Powell to the Grand Canyon and on to Meade and on down the Colorado drainage.
California could / refuses to build reservoirs to properly catch enough of the snowmelt runoffs.. a deliberate policy by the Democrats to create an artificial water shortage = never letting a crisis go to waste.
LA and other cities near the ocean should build desalination plants, thus steal less water from their neighbors. Owens Valley was green, farmed by middle class ranchers until clever lawyers stole their water..
The world’s largest dam removal ( four-dam teardown ) will touch many lives in the Klamath River Basin.. south-central Oregon, crosses the California state line,
Here is a good drainage map.
Water diverted from the Colorado River basin, through trans-mountain diversions, makes up 60 to 70% of the water used by Colorado Springs. Denver, Greeley, Fort Collins and ..
https://www.kpbs.org/news/2021/07/19/massive-plumbing-system-moves-water-across-colorad
Won’t all this snow end up in the Colorado River?
We are hearing reports that some of Cal/Nev ski places may be open on the 4th of July.
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