Almost 300 water wonks converged on Boulder Thursday for two days of sobering conversations about the river’s future ...

While dry soil conditions have improved in some areas, runoff remains below average for the Missouri River Basin.

Not surprisingly, water levels on the Missouri River fluctuate from year to year and season to season, largely depending on precipitation patterns within upper ... wet pattern in parts of the ...

“Several April warm spells that brought periods of above normal temperatures ... have streamflows around 85% of normal. The Upper Missouri River Basin had a May 1 snowpack of 74% of median ...

“Several April warm spells that brought periods of ... The Madison River Basin has a snowpack at 86% of normal, higher than at this point last year and is forecast to have streamflows around 85% of ...

(Omaha) -- Dry ... periods of May through the July--the months when the mountain snowpack melts." Benjamin Sipprell is a hydrologist with the National Weather Service's Missouri River Basin ...

Now, after a dry April, it’s even more miserly. That does not bode well for a basin mired in contentious ... and chair of the Upper Colorado River Commission. On April 1, the traditional end of the ...

Lerner says instead of focusing on the Delta and the lower Ohio River Valley like the pattern did two weeks ago, now the moisture has been shifted into Missouri ... upper Midwest will not be as ...

Williamson says the upper Missouri River shipping season ... quickly get absorbed by the dry soil. She says the reservoirs are like a savings account, and they must dip into those savings to maintain ...