Colorado Water Congress: 50th Annual Convention

Published: January 25, 2008, 8:31 am

From The Rocky Mountain News, "David Clow of the USGS told members of the Colorado Water Congress on Thursday that global warming doesn't yet seem to be affecting Colorado's snowpack dramatically, but that runoff already occurs two weeks earlier than it did 27 years ago. By the end of the century, runoff could come a full month earlier than it will this year, he said. The USGS studied snowmelt timing at all 72 U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service snow-monitoring sites across the state. They found that in 1980, snowmelt occurred two weeks later than it has in recent years...Clow said that scientists don't know exactly how climate change will affect temperatures in Colorado, but that they do know temperatures will increase more dramatically in the middle of large land masses, such as North America." Category: Colorado Water

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