You have likely heard news about El Niño recently. The National Weather Service reports that El Niño officially began in June. Observations from the International Research Institute show that it conti...

We’re now nearly a couple weeks past the 50th Anniversary of the Big Thompson Flood, one of the deadliest weather-related disasters in our state’s history. There were several commemorative events on J...

Every Thursday morning, a colorful map of the United States updates online. Published by the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, the U.S. Drought Monitor (...

Happy July! As we start the new month, our office is busy preparing to commemorate one of Colorado’s most impactful weather events: the 1976 Big Thompson Flood. Nearly 50 years ago, on July 31, 1976, ...

Large fires have ignited in Colorado, and rain this week will offer some relief before a weekend heatwave. Monsoon rains are on the horizon.

After the worst year for mountain snowpack since snowpack has been measured, we are now starting to see the extremely low river flows that were expected as a result. Some areas have received beneficia...

Colorado’s Drought Task Force is leaning on Russ Schumacher, atmospheric science professor at Colorado State University, for regular updates on statewide conditions.

The Colorado Drought Task Force called for an emergency drought proclamation from Gov. Jared Polis to unlock more resources to fight drought.

A flash drought in April left the southeastern Colorado plains dry and primed for fire. Then dry lightning hit, and the Sharpe fire ignited.

The midwest and south have been very active with severe weather lately, but it’s been relatively quiet here in Colorado so far. But we’ve reached the middle of May, which is the time of year when the ...

Officials are working to identify local drought impacts and vulnerabilities as the group kicks into gear for the first time since 2020. 

By maintaining Depression-era methods, researchers have confirmed this year’s snowpack is unprecedented.

We’ve reached April 1, which is a key date in assessing where things stand with snow in the mountains, which then informs the likely water supply in streams and rivers later in the spring and summer. ...

Experts say brutal March heat has left critical snowpack at record-low levels – and key basins in uncharted territory

Last week’s heat wave was record-smashing, extraordinary, and impossible to ignore. Given that temperatures were more typical of what we’d expect in June, we’ll try not to judge you if you felt the ne...

As of March 25, averaged across 115 stations in Colorado’s mountains, the snow water equivalent was just 38% of the 1991-2020 average. This represents the lowest snowpack in more than 40 years – and p...

The heat wave comes in the midst of an already challenging winter for the Rocky Mountains, compounding months of warm and dry conditions.

Although this winter’s lack of snow is striking, with measured levels reaching record lows, rising temperatures might be cause of greater concern as part of a larger trend, impacting spring runoff and...