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The April 1st figures were not indicative of an impending snowmelt flood threat in any of the state's major watersheds. Then, approximately midway through April, things changed. The dry and mild weather that had prevailed through much of the winter was replaced by wetter and cooler weather. When the May I, 1995 figures were calculated, there had been a considerable change. In fact, the increase in the basin figures from April I to May I led directly to the creation of the Flood Task Force and subsequently to all of the other preparatory measures taken by federal, state and local agencies and by private entities. From about the middle of May through the first week in June, the Front Range and adjacent foothills, as well as portions of the Eastern Plains, experienced a lot of rain. In some locations rains were heavy enough to cause localized flooding. By June I, 1995 the basin figures were quite a bit worse than the figures on May I. As the rains were affecting the lower elevation portions of the state's watersheds, the higher portions of those watersheds were experiencing two problems: I) no melting of the snowpack and 2) the addition of more snow. Instead of slowly getting better each day in May and early June, the state's snowpack situation was getting worse each day. For the first and second week in June that trend continued. Almost at the middle of June the weather got hot. During the week following the Task Force's regular Monday meeting on June 12, 1995 stream levels in the mountains rose every day. They peaked on the weekend (June 17-18), partly because Sunday, June 18 was a very cold and rainy day (a record cold day in Grand Junction). After that weekend temperatures were not as hot for about three weeks, so much of the remaining snowpack melted slowly. Stream levels dropped because of this moderate weather. Then another heat wave arrived after July 4. About July 12 the two watersheds with significant snowpack still remaining, the Roaring Fork River and Clear Creek, experienced peak flows again. After those peaks none of the state's watersheds had enough remaining snowpack combined with hot weather to produce significant flooding. There may have been more unusual weather after that, but it was no longer flood weather. Basalt, Colorado \\,1uld have experienced a flood exceeding the 100-year event if it hadn't been for the additional storage allocation in Reudi Reservoir. Attentive operational measures provided flood control at Basalt by reducing the flow 1,000 cfs.