It’s been a late season bonanza up north, with snowpack levels sitting at 120 percent of average north of Lake Tahoe. The central Sierra are a little less well-off but still close to normal. The southern Sierra have not had their best winter ever, but even still snow water equivalent is around 85 percent of normal. There have certainly been worse years in California. It’s when you get into the interior West that the problems start. Take Colorado. Their peak snowpack is likely to be the lowest since 2018. The northern part of the state has done well with near average snowfall this year. The Colorado River headwaters are also running near average, but southern Colorado, particularly the San Juan and Upper Rio Grande basins are in bad shape. Snow water equivalents are running about 60 percent of the median right now, or well, well below average. The story improves some in Utah, where the basins are a little noisier, but in general not in bad shape outside of southern Utah. Similar story in Wyoming and Idaho. Not great, not terrible. Oregon? Fantastic winter. Washington? Less so. But for Arizona and New Mexico, it was a dreadful winter.

Other snowpack and water supply news around the West:

• Courthouse News Service: ‘Worst case scenario’: Arizona remains hottest, driest in recent history
• Tahoe Daily Tribune (South Lake Tahoe, Calif.): What does our water picture look like after this winter?: ‘this year is a lesson’
• KCRA3 (Sacramento, Calif.): The Sacramento region banked 11.5 billion gallons of groundwater last year. Here’s how
• Carson Now (Carson City, Nev.): Third straight year with Lake Tahoe and Sierra snowpack near average or better
• Sonoma Valley Sun (Sonoma, Calif.): Sonoma Water reports water supplies are high as the rainy season draws to a close