Drought Monitor and Snotel Report for Colorado

From the USDA Market News office in Greeley here is Heath Dewey
Dewey: “According to this week’s Drought Monitor shows in the central Rockies of Colorado, areas of Abnormally Dry (D0) were reduced as early season snowpack data supports improvement. The NRCS Snotel reports the basin index percentages for the Gunnison River Basin at 98 percent; the Upper Colorado River Basin at 101 percent; the South Platte River Basin at 120 percent; the Laramie and North Platte River Basin at 86 percent; the Yampa and White River Basins at 72 percent; the Arkansas River Basins at 109 percent; the Upper Rio Grande Basin at 103 percent and the San Miguel, Delores, Animas and San Juan River Basins at 113 percent.”
Additionally the Drought Monitor weekly report states that conditions have steadily improved during the past twelve months in the desert Southwest leading to removal of remaining areas of drought on the map in northwestern New Mexico as well as continued improvement in northeastern Arizona. Removal of the remaining areas of drought in New Mexico marked the first time since November 23, 2010 that New Mexico was drought-free on the map. Elsewhere in the West, cold temperatures dominated during the past week with temperatures plummeting from five-to-twenty degrees below normal across the Far West, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, and western portions of the Southwest.