Snowpack in the Weber Basin Water Conservancy District is 140 percent of normal for this time of year, but residents used to summer rationing should curtail celebration until March, according to northern Utah water officials.
"The recent snowstorms really put down some good moisture - one to two inches of water in some places," said Ivan Flint, general manager of Weber Basin Water Conservancy District. "But we can't get too optimistic because we saw the same thing in November last year and then it stopped."Weber Basin users couldn't use secondary water between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. last year because of drought and the weak winter.
"If we were into March and we had these kind of figures then we'd be in great shape," Flint said.
The district's eight reservoirs are only 31 percent of capacity. They were almost 50 percent of capacity during the same period in 1977 - the last significant drought along the Wasatch Front.