Colorado
Gunnison
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ENTIRE UPPER COLORADO RIVER BASIN As of: 2013-05-24 Day #236 of Water Year 2013
All water measurements in inches
| LOCATIONS | AVG ELEVATION |
AVG CUR SWE | AVG SWE AVG | PCT SWE AVG |
AVG CUR TP | AVG TP AVG | PCT TP AVG |
SNOWPACK MAX DATE * |
SNOWPACK MAX AMT * |
PCT of MAX AMT * |
| 113 |
9606 |
3.143 |
4.798 |
65.51% |
18.507 |
23.034 |
80.35% |
April 15th |
17.746 |
17.71% |
Summary of River Basin Averages that drain into Lake Powell
RIVER BASIN Click for details and graph | LOCATIONS | AVG ELEVATION |
AVG CUR SWE | AVG SWE AVG | PCT SWE AVG |
AVG CUR TP | AVG TP AVG | PCT TP AVG |
SNOWPACK MAX DATE * |
SNOWPACK MAX AMT * |
PCT of MAX AMT * |
| ANIMAS RIVER |
9 |
10415 |
0.144 |
4.889 |
2.95% |
17.889 |
27.467 |
65.13% |
April 6th |
20.422 |
0.71% |
| COLORADO RIVER PLATEAUS |
3 |
8700 |
0.067 |
0.1 * |
67% |
15.067 |
19.600 |
76.87% |
March 31st |
11.800 |
0.57% |
| DOLORES/SAN MIGUEL RIVER |
7 |
10041 |
0.071 |
1.829 |
3.88% |
16.229 |
23.743 |
68.35% |
April 1st |
16.057 |
0.44% |
| DUCHESNE RIVER |
15 |
9383 |
2.293 |
3.460 |
66.27% |
16.433 |
20.713 |
79.34% |
April 1st |
14.893 |
15.4% |
| GUNNISON RIVER |
12 |
10203 |
2.508 |
4.833 |
51.89% |
18.867 |
24.858 |
75.90% |
April 15th |
17.108 |
14.66% |
| MUDDY/FREMONT/ESCALANTE RIVER |
4 |
9475 |
0.200 |
0.1 * |
200% |
13.650 |
16.725 |
81.61% |
April 1st |
16.475 |
1.21% |
| PRICE/SAN RAFAEL RIVER |
7 |
9236 |
0.243 |
0.243 |
100.00% |
16.986 |
20.929 |
81.16% |
April 1st |
15.600 |
1.56% |
| ROARING FORK RIVER |
7 |
9814 |
3.814 |
3.143 |
121.35% |
20.629 |
25.000 |
82.52% |
April 15th |
22.671 |
16.82% |
| SAN JUAN RIVER HEADWATERS |
9 |
10619 |
1.514 |
9.614 |
15.75% |
18.922 |
28.267 |
66.94% |
April 15th |
19.067 |
7.94% |
| UPPER COLORADO RIVER HEADWATERS |
16 |
10092 |
7.850 |
7.729 |
101.57% |
20.920 |
22.500 |
92.98% |
April 14th |
14.713 |
53.35% |
| UPPER GREEN RIVER |
19 |
8794 |
2.495 |
4.374 |
57.04% |
16.147 |
19.258 |
83.85% |
April 15th |
19.905 |
12.53% |
| YAMPA/WHITE RIVER |
18 |
9256 |
6.582 |
9.206 |
71.50% |
24.106 |
27.824 |
86.64% |
April 16th |
29.080 |
22.63% |
* Denotes that Avg SWE (snow water equiv) is 0.000 but is adjusted up to 0.1 for calculation purposes
Abbreviations Legend:
-- indicates the either no measurement taken or data not received
SWE = Snow Water Equivilent
SWE is the amount of water in a volume of snow, measured by weight
TP = Total Precipitation
AVG SWE = Average Snow Water Equivilent for date listed above
AVG TP = Average Total Precipitation for date listed above
PCT SWE AVG = SWE as a Percent of Average SWE for that date
PCT TP AVG = TP as a Percent of Average TP for that date
Percent of Average Numbers are calculated only for those stations that report for a given date
A non-reporting station is eliminated from the calculation of overall averages, not treated as a 0
* Max Snowpack numbers and dates come from NRCS data for previous year
Colors Legend: Red, less than 50% of average Orange, between 50% and 80% of average Green, between 80% and 120% of average Blue, between 120% and 150% of average Purple, greater than 150% of average
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