Huh, Lake Powell has been dropping for 40 years.

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Feb 22, 2023
5:31:35pm

CMAC38 3rd String

Huh, Lake Powell has been dropping for 40 years.

It will take many years of this for Powell to get anywhere near its peak. If there is an early hot spring most of this runoff will flood, evaporate and not raise the lake near as much as it could. Drought is far from over. It requires a trend not 1 or 2 years. Just the way it is.

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CMAC38

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Time

Alta snowiest October-February on record

TempeCoug

2/22/23 5:20pm

Nice drought buster winter

2/22/23 5:22pm

Lake Powell is saved!!!

Dark Forest Green

2/22/23 5:25pm

Unfortunately not so great (yet) on the Colorado side where it matters for LP.

2/22/23 5:26pm

120-135% for the Upper Colorado basins before this storm. That is a very good snowpack.

SingleStrapBackpack

2/22/23 5:34pm

But not a game changer

ABCoug

2/22/23 6:11pm

Can I interest you in a job at KSL?

2/22/23 6:18pm

This is a cool tool to see where water goes:

cougfanblue

2/22/23 5:39pm

That's awesome! I dropped it in North Wyoming and it flows North almost to the

2/22/23 10:17pm

What makes you say that?

Big12Yfan

2/22/23 5:40pm

Because snowfall in the state of Colorado represents the lion's share of water that ends up in Lake Powell. The Wind

SingleStrapBackpack

2/22/23 5:44pm

I was asking Boisebluecoug why it wasn’t so great

Big12Yfan

2/22/23 5:49pm

Ah, yes. I didn't understand what he meant by that either. CO snowpack might not be nearing record levels like UT but

SingleStrapBackpack

2/22/23 5:51pm

Yep. Solid year… but with LP reaching all-time low levels, it will take many,

2/22/23 6:04pm

None of the major Utah watersheds in UT will be 200% after this storm. A few smaller ones like SW Utah and SE Utah

SingleStrapBackpack

2/22/23 6:16pm

Didn't Powell just hit a historic low two days ago? I am curious if there

P-Boy Squad

2/22/23 5:27pm

The water maps are looking good though

2/22/23 5:34pm

Probably going to be another 30-40" at least before February is done

SingleStrapBackpack

2/22/23 5:25pm

You think?

eysikal

2/22/23 5:29pm

Or possibly more

SingleStrapBackpack

2/22/23 5:32pm

Maybe not on record, but in 43 years anyway. What is the Collins study plot?

BlueTooth

2/22/23 5:28pm

Colorado drainages were all about 120-135% of normal before this storm. Upper Green drainages in WY were about normal.

SingleStrapBackpack

2/22/23 5:32pm

Holy moly, that's 44 feet.

2/22/23 5:29pm

Huh, Lake Powell has been dropping for 40 years.

CMAC38

2/22/23 5:31pm

No it hasn't. It was chock full for sure in 1998, if not a couple years beyond that. And I think it filled up most years

SingleStrapBackpack

2/22/23 5:33pm

According to internet Peak Fill was 1963.

CMAC38

2/22/23 5:36pm

That's incorrect. 1963 was the year that the dam was finished and the reservoir began to fill. First time it reached

SingleStrapBackpack

2/22/23 5:42pm

I don't know how it could be any more full than it was in 1983. I remember pics

BlueTooth

2/22/23 5:43pm

I'm pretty sure 1983 is the highest it's ever been. It was over capacity that year. It's been at capacity since – but

SingleStrapBackpack

2/22/23 5:45pm

Haha, stupid internet needs fact checking. Their #'s don't add up.

CMAC38

2/22/23 5:48pm

I think you just need to look at a different place on the Internet 🙂

SingleStrapBackpack

2/22/23 5:49pm

And it was about then that both Powell and Mead were full. Powell has been full other years, but not Powell and Mead...

Brisco

2/22/23 6:23pm

Lake Powell and the CO river system will continue to drop. It isn’t a

The Pope

2/22/23 5:35pm

Confused by this statement. Is Lake Powell not man made? I've only been once.

CougaRR4L

2/22/23 5:52pm

Seems clear to me. Maybe it has been edited.

Brisco

2/22/23 6:26pm

Sorry, I was typing fast. My point was the CO River pact between the

The Pope

2/22/23 9:01pm

RE: Huh, Lake Powell has been dropping for 40 years.

cougfanblue

2/22/23 5:48pm

Cool, but what about Mirror Lake?

Brisco

2/22/23 7:06pm

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