For understandable reasons, we have been focusing a lot on the West, but there's a much broader signal. Many stations across the entire southern half of the U.S. are recording their highest average maximum temperatures on record so far this March.

Graphic by https://sercc.com/

A historic heatwave in mid-March and snow water equivalent that looks like this in Colorado... 🫠

Graphic from https://nwcc-apps.sc.egov.usda.gov/awdb/basin-plots/POR/WTEQ/assocHUCco3/state_of_colorado.html

@ZLabe I don’t really know how to relate that to water usage needs, but that looks low enough to expect reservoirs to be getting significantly lower this year