{"id":2444620,"date":"2019-05-26T08:22:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T14:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=306523"},"modified":"2019-05-26T08:22:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T14:22:14","slug":"colorado-drought-free-statewide-with-heavy-mountain-snowpack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/colorado-drought-free-statewide-with-heavy-mountain-snowpack\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado drought-free statewide with heavy mountain snowpack"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/cover-atw-052319-23-25.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/cover-atw-052319-23-25.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/cover-atw-052319-23-25-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption><strong>Elk Mountain Expeditions guide Tom Wills guiding on the Slaughterhouse falls section on the Roaring Fork River on May 16 with owner James Foerster, left, and guide Shaffer Klenda.<\/strong><br \/><em>Anna Stonehouse\/The Aspen Times<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>DENVER (AP) \u2014 A heavy mountain snowpack has helped Colorado shake free of drought that covered much of the state just months ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Agriculture\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/CurrentMap\/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?CO\">latest update<\/a>&nbsp;of drought conditions shows a fraction of 1% of the Colorado is still experiencing drought. In February, more than two-thirds of the state was experiencing drought.<\/p>\n<p>Mountain snowpack levels are high statewide and particularly in the southwest.<\/p>\n<p>As the snow melts, more water will be available for agriculture and for cities and towns to store in reservoirs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/colorado-drought-free-statewide-with-heavy-mountain-snowpack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elk Mountain Expeditions guide Tom Wills guiding on the Slaughterhouse falls section on the Roaring Fork River on May 16 with owner James Foerster, left, and guide Shaffer Klenda.Anna Stonehouse\/The Aspen Times DENVER (AP) \u2014 A heavy mountain snowpack has helped Colorado shake free of drought that covered much of the state just months ago. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2444620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 19:43:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}