Colorado River Basin Forecast

Updated to include additional information. Final update was at 1:23 a.m. Monday April 17, 2023

The mission of the National Weather Service Colorado Basin River Forecast Center (CBRFC) is to produce river, flood and water supply forecasts for the Colorado Basin and the Great Basin in support of saving lives and property and to enhance the region’s environment and economy.

In this article, I am providing a summary of the situation as of April 1, 2023.  But I have provided links to obtain more current information. In a way, the situation is better than it seemed to be on April 1 but flood risk has increased in a few places. I have also included some of the graphics from the April 7, 2023 presentation. So some of the information is a bit more current than the rest of it.

I have also included information on the current reservoir storage levels including a few that are outside of the Colorado River Basin.

The image below shows the area covered in the CBRFC Report.