Snowpack news: Statewide snowpack = 75% of avg, Upper Colorado = 69% #codrought #coriver

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From The Denver Post (Joey Bunch):

Colorado’s snowpack continues to improve with recent storms. Statewide the snowpack was 75 percent, and as high as 90 percent in southwest Colorado and 76 percent in northwest Colorado. The Colorado River basin was at 69 percent of average Wednesday, according to the Natural Resources Conservation Service in Lakewood.
Snowpack percentages bottomed out in the 40s for some river basins in December.

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