Well, we certainly had a wet winter, the wettest for 10 years. The City's reservoir system is 95.5% full. The
State's reservoirs are much improved, the Rio Grande's flow is 8,790 cubic feet per second
at Embudo, the newspapers are giving us flood stories daily.
Here are some other sites for looking at the current situation: the
New Mexico State Basin Outlook Report (from NRCS),
Southwest Climate Outlook (from CLIMAS),
Seasonal Drought Outlook (from CLIMAS), the
Weekly Snotel and Snowpack Precipitation Report (from NRCS), the
Hydologic Outlook from the National Weather Service in Albuquerque.
None of this tells us, particularly, whether the drought cycle has ended or whether we've just had a wet year. A terrific article from University of Arizona's CLIMAS unit (Climate Assessment for the Southwest),
"Will the Drought Continue?" addresses this very question. It's got some very interesting graphics.
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