Only 160 feet more to go to be full. But each successive is much harder as it requires more surface area. They had a lot of snow in Colorado this year.
These lower lakes on the Colorado drainage are the last to fill. Above Mead is Lake Powell which is at 230% of it Water Year in 2022. It is up 40 Feet from last year. That has taken place because the 34 lakes above it on the feeding drainages are now above 85% of capacity.
Now, if we have a good snow year this winter, we will really see the big lower lakes fill even more as we are going into the fall and the end of the ‘Water Year’ with the upper lakes already near capacity so the excess will all go to bringing up Powell and Mead.
the hurricane increased lake meade by about 2 feet over a couple weeks. (or maybe it was higher inflows from lake powell.)
there was a big rain on saturday in Nevada and southwest utah that dropped a couple inches in places. that may add another foot to lake meade.