Snowpack

Twenty-one degrees outside currently, up from seven degrees this morning when I got up. We've got about six inches of snow on the ground outside my window, more drifted into the odd corners here and there. According to the latest figures, we're at about 114% of normal here in the Gunnison Basin, and the state as a whole is at 123% - good news, but not the whole story. How the watershed holds up over these next couple of months will determine our irrigation story for the rest of the year. Things can go from good to bad in just a couple of weeks, absent snow- or rainfall, up here in the dry high desert.