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Some of Colorado's mountains have no snowpack left after below-average winter

April 29, 2025

Featuring Russ Schumacher with KDVR Denver.

North/south split for Western Slope snowpack and streamflow forecasts

April 14, 2025

Featuring Peter Goble in the Post Independent.

Why this March has been among windiest and driest on record in Fort Collins

March 27, 2025

Featuring Allie Mazurek in The Coloradoan.

Will Colorado see drought conditions start to develop this spring?

March 16, 2025

Featuring Russ Schumacher in Sky-Hi News.

Colorado is split into snowpack haves and have-nots, drought report shows.

March 14, 2025

Featuring Russ Schumacher in the Colorado Sun.

March megastorm may bring blizzards, tornadoes, flooding and even fires across much of US.

March 13, 2025

Featuring Russ Schumacher in Pyys.org.

Latest storm cycle brings snowpack above normal in the northern mountains, with Winter Park tallying the 3rd-deepest snow total

February 23, 2025

Featuring Russ Schumacher in Sky-Hi News.

Bone Dry: Farming in Colorado's extreme drought

February 21, 2025

Featuring Russ Schumacher in Rocky Mountain PBS.

What's the Outlook for Corn Belt Weather as February Comes to an End?

February 20, 2025

Featuring Peter Goble in Successful Farming.

Water crisis in West still looms as Lakes Mead and Powell only 35% full

February 20, 2025

Featuring Russ Schumacher in USA Today.

With snow up to 50 inches in areas, Colorado's latest storm cycle brought snowpack above normal in the northern mountains

February 19, 2025

Featuring Russ Schumacher in the the Aspen Times.

Latest storm cycle brings snowpack above normal in the northern mountains

February 19, 2025

Featuring Russ Schumacher in the the Summit Daily.

A change in the weather: La Nina is departing

February 18, 2025

Featuring Peter Goble in the Telluride Daily Planet.

Storm good news for snowpack, but several more like it are needed

February 14, 2025

Featuring Peter Goble in the Durango Herald.

A warming valley

January 24, 2025

Featuring Russ Schumacher in the Alamosa Citizen.

How much snow did Florida get this week? Mor than Anchorage or New York City

January 24, 2025

Featuring CoCoRaHS in the Florida Herald-Tribune.

Arctic air to bring freezing, below-zero temperatures to Fort Collins this weekend

January 15, 2025

Featuring Russ Schumacher in the Coloradoan.

Northern Colorado cleans up first snowstorm of the season

January 7, 2025

Featuring Russ Schumacher on 9News.

State climatologist says Northern Colorado has worst drought conditions in the state

December 23, 2024

Featuring Russ Schumacher on 9News.

Rain possible on the Front Range this week, but a white Christmas is a 'sure bet' in Colorado's mountains

December 23, 2024

Featuring Russ Schumacher in CPR News.

Here are the chances of a white Christmas in Colorado communities

December 21, 2024

Featuring Russ Schumacher in The Coloradoan.

State climatologist: sNOw outlook for the holidays

December 19, 2024

Featuring Russ Schumacher in CSU Source.

Record-setting November snowstorm brings some drought relief to Colorado

November 29, 2024

Featuring Russ Schumacher in The Denver Gazette.

The first winter storm of the season brings drought relief to southeast Colorado

November 8, 2024

Featuring Russ Schumacher in The Colorado Sun.

Fort Collins to break latest fall frost record as warm, dry weather continues

October 23, 2024

Featuring Russ Schumacher in The Coloradoan.

What will La Nina mean for ski conditions this winter? Colorado predictions

October 10, 2024

Featuring Peter Goble in The Coloradoan.

Why are so many historically rare storms hitting the Carolinas?

October 2, 2024

Featuring Russ Schumacher in The Conversation.

Is Boulder the best place to weather climate change? No, but it's not the worst.

September 26, 2024

Featuring Peter Goble in the Boulder Reporting Lab.

Colorado had a shockingly normal year of precipitation - but drought is creeping back on the Front Range

September 26, 2024

Featuring Peter Goble in the Colorado Sun.

The Farmers' Almanac winter weather prediction for Colorado

September 22, 2024

Featuring Peter Goble in the Coloradoan.

Climatologist: Warming of state almost certain to continue

September 21, 2024

Featuring Russ Schumacher in the Grand Junction Sentinel.

Up to the stratosphere: Weather balloon launched at CSU demonstration

September 5, 2024

Featuring Russ Schumacher in the Coloradoan.

The monsoon persists - but the long term pattern is warm and dry

August 25, 2024

Featuring Peter Goble in the Telluride Daily Planet.

Large number of customers starting lawn-watering cycles on Mondays is stressing Denver Water's system

August 19, 2024

Featuring Peter Goble in the Colorado Sun.

Here's a way-too-early forecast for Colorado's 2024-25 winter season

August 18, 2024

Featuring Peter Goble in the Aspen Times.

"Flash drought" in northern Colorado laid foundation for recent Front Range wildfires

August 8, 2024

Featuring Peter Goble in the Colorado Sun.

Fort Collins to set heat record before rapid, drastic weather change this week

August 5, 2024

Featuring Russ Schumacher in the Coloradoan.

Next Conversation: State Climatologist Russ Schumacher on Colorado's wildfire year

August 5, 2024

Featuring Russ Schumacher on 9News Next with Kyle Clark.

Four wildfires in three days along Colorado's Front Range span more than 9,500 acres, force thousands to evacuate

July 31, 2024

Featuring Peter Goble in the Denver Post.

How hot was it in Fort Collins? City touches record and could break some this weekend

July 13, 2024

Featuring Russ Schumacher in the Coloradoan.

Climate change is making Colorado heat waves more likely - and more likely to be extreme

July 11, 2024

Featuring Russ Schumacher on Colorado Public Radio.

As climate-driven threat increases, Xcel Energy looks to go high tech with its Wildfire Mitigation Plan

June 29, 2024

Featuring Colorado Climate Center in The Alamosa Citizen.

Senate Agriculture Subcommittee Field Hearing on Impact of Drought on Agriculture

June 26, 2024

Featuring Peter Goble on C-SPAN.

The monsoon arrives

June 25, 2024

Featuring Peter Goble in The Telluride Daily Planet.

The race to get ahead of the next tornado

June 21, 2024

Featuring Russ Schumacher in Vox.

Colorado's 20 largest wildfires happened this century. Here's how things are changing.

June 3, 2024

Featuring Becky Bolinger in The Coloradoan.

Snowpack is melting faster than expected in southern Colorado, slower in northern Colorado

May 23, 2024

Featuring Russ Schumacher in Colorado Politics.

There may be a wetter future ahead for the Colorado River, new CU Boulder research says

May 10, 2024

Featuring Peter Goble in The Colorado Sun.

Climate change's impact on water supply topic of talk at civic center

April 4, 2024

Featuring Russ Schumacher in The Longmont Leader.

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The changing drought landscape after a big storm and May heat

May 15, 2025

No good news in the snowpack and water supply numbers

April 14, 2025

What Season is it Anyway?

March 14, 2025

End-of-February snowpack check-in: ok in the north, bleak in the south (plus, a message about our federal government partners)

February 28, 2025

February 18, 2025

Light and Heat: A Love Story

February 14, 2025

The curious case of the cold in Gunnison

December 22, 2024

A whopper of a snowstorm

November 18, 2024

The Colorado killer tornadoes of November 4, 1922

November 5, 2024

First snows in Colorado

October 18, 2024

North Carolina

October 3, 2024

First fall freezes

September 20, 2024