When we should be approaching the peak accumulation in snowpack across the West, conditions have instead further rapidly deteriorated.

Another way to look at it: Colorado’s snow water equivalent has already reached a level that wasn’t seen until about a MONTH later in the previous worst record.

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