The 2024 meltdown is well underway!  The snowpack at the Upper San Juan Snotel site (USJSS) peaked 3 days early on April 11th with 25.8...

As I enter my 25th year of living in the Southern San Juans, I’ve witnessed events this spring that I’ve never seen before! For example,...

How does our current snowpack stack up to the epic winter of 2018-2019? In the 23 years that I’ve shoveled snow in Pagosa, I can’t...

Like constellations in the night sky, some see shapes in the snow and claim that they can foretell the future. From October till May,...

It may surprise you to know that the 2020 spring runoff on the San Juan River was a top-five event! While the 2019 spring runoff was the...

Wondering when and how much streamflow to expect in the San Juan River during the 2020 spring runoff? And how will the 2020 spring...

Rather than climbing snowbanks onto the Pagosa Springs High School roof or jumping out of the second-story classroom windows into the...

Wondering how the snowpack in the Southern San Juan Mountains stacks up to the last year and the historic norm? January is usually the...

How does the 2020 snowpack stack up to last year and to the historic norm? Snow-wise, 2019 is a tough act to follow, but I was surprised...

The current 2019 Southern San Juan snowpack is not unprecedented, but it's getting harder to find years to compare it to! Winter appears...

The 2019 winter was officially a winner! The most encouraging sight was seeing the drinking water reservoirs cascading over their...

After a near record-setting February, March is off to a great start, and more storms are on the way! Snow conditions are polar opposite...

Have we broken any snow depth records this year? To answer that question, I plotted March 1st snow depths over the last 20 winters....

Wondering how our current snowpack stacks up against last year and the historic average? Storms this past week added about four inches...

Waking up to nearly two feet of fresh snow was a great way to start 2019! The New Year's Storm ranks as one of the top storms of the...

The snow season in the Southern San Juan Mountains is off to a strong start!  Wolf Creek Ski Area opened on October 13, only 5 days later...

Peak spring runoff in the the San Juan River occurred in Pagosa Springs on May 10th at 11:45 PM at 1330 cfs! Even though the Upper San...

Wondering how the 2018 snowpack stacks up against recent years with big summer wildfires? And when and how much streamflow will our...

Wondering how the 2018 snowpack stacks up against recent years with big summer wildfires? And when and how much streamflow will our...

Wondering how the 2018 snowpack stacks up against the worst 4 years in recent history? And when and how much streamflow will our meager...