The reason is that Colorado depends on the mountain snow pack for its water.  At our elevation everything flows away from us, not toward us.  Without a big snow pack, we run low on water by summer and when severe, irrigation of crops can be stopped at great loss to growers!  Another aspect of Colorado’s problem is that since out rivers run into other states, those states also rely on our water and by agreement we must deliver it…and we get what is left and often that is not enough.
So even though some of the ski areas have closed and spring here…snow delivery is always welcome!

The has been a dry winter and we are behind in mountain snow all across the state.  But now it is Spring and today Colorado is getting hammered with a major snow storm and everyone seems to be excited.  The mountains will end up with a couple of feet of new snow and the valleys with perhaps a foot.  March and April are the months when we do this and we all hope for it.  And in a couple of days, snow at lower elevations will melt, the sky will be blue, the high peaks bright white and today a memory.   I can not think of a better place to live.