Overdue Snow

Springtime in the Rockies really ought to mean lots of snow, and yesterday afternoon and evening we collected our down payment. How much? I dunno--it depends exactly where you look. Several inches, anyway. And that's down here on the 8000 foot valley floor. Quite a bit more, no doubt, up in the nearby mountains.

Significantly, this storm moved here from the southwest. It snowed above 1500 feet near Los Angeles, it snowed either in or around Phoenix, and it must have put some snow on the San Juan Mountains of Colorado--where the snowpack was a dismal 42% of normal. (We river rafting people notice such things.)

Now, before we get all excited, remember that it's supposed to snow! What's normal already includes a good dose of spring snow. So the drier parts of Colorado probably aren't charging ahead just yet. What's happening is what's supposed to be happening. But that's a whole lot better than nothing.