Glad you noticed. This has been dwindling for 15 years. The W. slopes of the Rockies in CO just have not been getting the usual snowfall. This year, voila! Plenty of snow. So, the good news is that Powell has finally begun to refill and the big release can finally be justified. So, L. Mead, look out, here it comes, and there's more where that came from. It is very encouraging!
We have had so much rain and snow here in Arizona, our empty lakes are full and they are running the salt river again... The roads that have bridges crossing it are plugged solid now as the others that dont have bridges are uncrossable now. The water is flowing out into the middle of the desert.