Upper Basin Runoff Forecast Lowered Due To Dry Conditions - Northern Plains Independent

The forecast for #LakePowell keeps getting worse: The lackluster #runoff prediction comes as over half of #Utah’s counties are suffering from #drought — The Salt Lake Tribune #ColoradoRiver #COriver #aridification

Click the link to read the article on The Salt Lake Tribune website (Anastasia Hufham). Here’s an excerpt: May 9. 2025 This year’s predicted spring runoff into Lake Powell has decreased yet again as the impacts of a dry winter begin to show. Hydrologists at the Colorado Basin River Forecast Center said Wednesday that the amount of water flowing into Lake Powell between April and July this year is expected to be 55% of average. “Average,” in for…

Upper Basin Runoff Forecast Lowered Due To Dry Conditions - Northern Plains Independent

The updated 2025 calendar year runoff forecast for the Missouri River Basin above Sioux City, Iowa, continues to be below average. April runoff in the Missouri River Basin above Sioux City was 1.4 million acre-feet, 48% of average. “Runoff into the reservoir system was below average for the month of April, and runoff was below average in all reaches,” said John Remus, chief of the U.S. Army