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Daily Snow Viewer – National Snow and Ice Data Center (CIRES)

Interactive map viewer showing daily snow coverage across the Western United States that allows users to explore variables like total snow cover, snow water equivalent (SWE), albedo, and radiative forcing. Summary data can be produced for States, Regions, and HUC basins. Check out the snow-viewer guide here: Snow viewer guide. 

https://nsidc.org/snow-today/snow-viewer 

Hydrodata Basin Maps: Upper Colorado – U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

Dashboard showing the status of surface water and surface water storage in the upper Colorado River Basin.  

usbr.gov/uc/water/hydrodata/status_maps/

National Water and Climate Center Interactive Map Viewer – National Resource Conservation Service (NRCS)

NRCS Interactive Map customized to show the adjusted streamflow for the current water-year-to-date, as a % of the period-of-record average. Click on a gage of interest to bring up a popup, click on the popup to expand it, and then click on Data Reports and either Water Year Table or Water Year Chart for the current year’s monthly flows. For historical flows at that gage, open the Water Year Table, click on the Create/Modify Report tab in the upper left. When the tab opens, click the first checkbox for ‘stream volume, adjusted’ then below that, change Time Period to “Period of Record”, then click on the View Report tab at upper left. 

nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/wcc/home/quicklinks/ 

National Water Information System: Map View, Colorado River Basin – U.S. Geological Survey

Interactive map viewer of all the hydrological monitoring sites run by the U.S. Geological Survey in the Colorado River Basin.  

maps.waterdata.usgs.gov/mapper/