RSSState’s snowpack surplus slips after dry month
PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER TOMLINSON—Snow drapes Mount of the Holy Cross in the Sawatch Range south of Vail, though maybe not as much as a month ago. Snowpack in Colorado decreased to 117 percent of average on Feb. 1 from 136 percent of average on Jan. 1, according to the Natural Resources Conservation Service.
A dry January erased much of the surplus snowpack built up earlier in the season around the state. The state’s snowpack decreased from 136 percent of average on Jan. 1 to 117 percent on…
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