WYOMING SNAKE RIVER .................................. 12 of 16 191 131 UPPER YELLOWSTONE-MADISON .................... 12 of 13 168 129 WIND RIVER ................................... 9 of 10 141 97 BIGHORN BASIN ................................ 15 of 16 156 125 SHOSHONE RIVER ............................... 6 of 7 148 134 POWDER-TONGUE ................................ 12 of 14 174 115 BELLE FOURCHE ................................ 3 of 3 324 149 UPPER N. PLATTE RIVER ........................ 12 of 12 187 151 LOWER N. PLATTE - SWEETWATER - LARAMIE ....... 10 of 10 148 119 LITTLE SNAKE RIVER ........................... 3 of 5 190 145 UPPER GREEN RIVER ............................ 11 of 13 191 129 LOWER GREEN RIVER ............................ 7 of 7 184 127 UPPER BEAR RIVER ............................. 7 of 7 242 141
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/snotelanom/snotelbasin
Colorado is at 146% of normal.
COLORADO GUNNISON RIVER BASIN ......................... 11 of 15 156 121 UPPER COLORADO RIVER BASIN ................... 25 of 30 173 132 SOUTH PLATTE RIVER BASIN ..................... 15 of 17 164 128 LARAMIE AND NORTH PLATTE RIVER BASINS ........ 12 of 13 177 145 YAMPA AND WHITE RIVER BASINS ................. 14 of 19 183 140 ARKANSAS RIVER BASIN ......................... 6 of 9 124 96 UPPER RIO GRANDE BASIN ....................... 10 of 15 91 92 SAN MIGUEL, DOLORES, ANIMAS AND SAN JUAN RIVER BASIN ..................... 13 of 16 103 101
When it finally does start melting, how are the river channels going to handle that?
Slimey newt.
Most people started out with an open mind about global warming, but got turned off as the lies became more obvious and ridiculous. And there was some apparent warming in the 1980’s and 1990’s. So once believing it might be real is a forgivable sin.
Possibly true if humans were allowed the convenience of laziness. But life shows us clearly we are not. What is forgivable is uncertainty. Uncertainty leads, or should lead, a human to inquiry. Now, not inquiring, that is where the wrong comes in.
But you are right. Forgiveness is a necessary parcel to be delivered. If there were no wrongs there would be no need for forgiveness. So we all need forgiveness. It seems married couples become more aware of the necessity of forgiveness that other humans.
Yes, yes, but this is all new snow. What counts is the multi-year snow. Wolverines need that or desperate pikas will attack them in their dens, with catastrophic results.
We have tons of snow in the mountains not far above us. Very slow to melt so far. When the annual planetary fever gets going it is going to be very interesting. I’m predicting the sea level in our beaver ponds is going to rise dramatically. I’ve tried to warn them.
The Seattle Times front page in the local grocery store is a picture of Rainier I believe with a headline something like: “NEVER THIS MUCH SNOW THIS LATE IN SEASON BEFORE” But I can’t find it electronically. I did find this story in the Herald:
http://heraldnet.com/article/20110509/NEWS01/705099915
This is all good. Snow, and now it has been raining intermittently for three days in Gillette. The Missouri and Colorado river basins originate in Wyoming and there are enough dams to regulate the water release. All of the states downstream benefit. And when I look outside in my garden there is a Rufous-sided towhee literally dancing in the rain.
Denis – Pardon my total nitpicking here but they have split that species and changed the name to Spotted Towhees in the West and Eastern Towhees in the, well, east. Beautiful birds. Love them eyes.
You are correct and i see that in Wikipedia. So I learned something today. My bird book is 30 years old. Heck, I still say “Bullie for Brontosaurus”, another Wyoming native.
Denis,
They’ve done a quite a few splits and name changes in the last 30 years. More coming. Latest was the Winter Wren.
On the other hand they split ‘Western Flycatchers’ into two species but that was always a total crock and looks to be reverting back – now that the ‘distinguished’ expert who made that bogus call has died. Lots of these splits are highly dubious to put it mildly. The definition of a ‘species’ seems to be getting more politicized by the day.
I still think of them as Rufous-sided Towhees but my birder friends are worse than me for nitpicking so I have to keep up just to talk to them… but keep your old bird book and just pencil in these changes.
Just a darn shame that all these birds are going to be killed off by the Planetary Fever.
And Denis, the Colorado River still has headwaters in Colorado.
That’s good news for Lake Powell and Lake Mead. I hear the upper lake is already releasing water to make room for the spring thaw. I PREDICT that Lake Mead will be restored to brim-full this season.
How sad. Another global warming icon dead. Soon there won’t be any more mentally challenged AGW predictions left to make fun of.
Right you are. It has headwaters in several states including Colorado.
The Green and Colorado join just above Cataract Canyon on the way into Lake Powell. I have canoed there several times.
The rivers will be high this summer with the beautiful, clear run off.