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Current conditions

From coloradoriverscience.org

Overview

This page links to frequently-updated web resources that provide information about current, recent, and forecasted weather and climate, water supply, reservoirs, etc. for the Colorado River Basin.

Interactive maps and tools

These web resources provide multiple ways to view the data, e.g., by selecting a variable, a site or geographic region, or other attributes. In the listings below, links in the bullet items go directly to views of that variable (e.g., snowpack).

  • Reservoir storage (current and historical)
  • Reservoir inflows (current and historical)
  • Reservoir releases (current and historical)
  • Streamflows (current and historical)
  • Diversion flows (current and historical)
  • Projected reservoir storage
  • Projected reservoir levels
  • Projected reservoir inflows
  • Projected reservoir releases

Dashboards

These web resources show a curated set of visualizations, with no user selection.

  • Soil moisture (antecedent; early November)
  • Snowpack (current)
  • Precipitation (recent)
  • Seasonal streamflow forecast (Powell inflows only)
  • Reservoir inflows (current; Powell only)
  • Reservoir storage (current)
  • Snowpack (current)
  • Projected reservoir levels (Powell, Mead)
  • Temperature (recent)
  • Precipitation (recent)
  • Snowpack (current)
  • Drought indices (current)
  • Streamflows (current)
  • Seasonal streamflow forecasts (NRCS, available Jan-Jun)
  • Soil moisture (current)
  • Reservoir storage (current)
  • Seasonal climate outlooks
  • ENSO (current, forecasted)