Some hope seen in snowpack

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Above average snowfall this year helps.

Well, we are above normal in most areas of the State for snowfall this year.  Or, at least, we're well above last year.  Summit County, for example, is 98% of average, but 118% of last year's precipitation.  So, the <a href="http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_3587146,00.html" target="_blank">hope is there</a>. But, is it enough?  Well, the <a href="http://ccc.atmos.colostate.edu/" target="_blank">Colorado Climate Center</a> is still worried.  Most of our snow this year hit the southwest areas of the State.  And several years of drought means that one above-average year is not enough to catch up.  Even if stream and river flows are good, the acquifers need to be replenished.  The Denver Acquifer (which provides much of the water for the Denver Metro Area) is still way down.  We'll need more years of this to really make the news.  But, a good year leaves us all optimistic.  9 application/xml false Colorado Climate Center Denver acquifer Summit County Some hope seen in snowpack But above average levels may not bring lasting drought relief http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_3587146,00.html Colorado Climate Center It's their website http://ccc.atmos.colostate.edu/ Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) 66.198.200.154 66.198.200.154 kdeshaies false true false false true 205866 false false true false false false true 78647 blog blogsite/SnowHome/web