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Show Water supply outlook I The early season witter supply ! outlook is good throughout the entire state due to major storms in October ! and December, according to the (January report of the NOAA National Weather Service, Colorado Basin Hiver Forecast Center in Sit It Lake City. In Eastern Utah the water supply outlook for spring runoff over most tlx-basin tlx-basin appears to be a little above normal except the extreme southeast where the stream-flow is likely to be less than normal. Fall and early winter storms have predominately moved across northern areas of the state leaving the southeast somewhat deficient. The October rains which ranged from near normal in the south to more than 300 percent in the Uintah Basin provided sufficient moisture to replenish the much needed soil moisture after the dry summer. Two stations, Vernal (4.36 inches) ''and Duchesne (3.54), reported the wettest October on record dating back f to the early 1900s. November and ; December was characterized by a ; warm, dry pattern except the upper 'reaches of the Strawberry and Duchesne rivers which received near normal precipitation in December. Seasonal precipitation ranges from 70 percent of normal in the extreme southeast to about 200 percent in the Uintah Basin. The mountain snowpack over the Duchesne Hiver watershed averages 137 percent of the January 1 normal, the Trice, San Rafael and Muddy River drainages averages 154 percent, but over southeastern Utah the snow pack averages only percent. Seasonal streamflow (October through December) continues to remain above norma! with 117 percent at Whiterocks and 104 percent on the Green River at Green River, Utah. Storage in Flaming Gorge Reservoir is 2.8 million acre-feet, 74 percent of capacity and 227,000 acre-feet lower than last year at this time. Storage in Lake Powell is 20.1 million acre-feet, 80 percent of capacity and nearly 2 million acre-feet below hist year at this time. April-July forecast inflows to Lake Powell and Flaming Gorge Reservoir are 8.0 million (115 percent) and 1.45 million (112 percent), respectively. |
