In most years, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox wouldn’t be thrilled to see snowpack levels in a vital basin at only about two-thirds of their normal levels this late in the season.
However, after the southwestern Utah snowpack basin has gained 3.9 inches of snow-water equivalent since March 3, nearly tripling its season total, he’s happy to see it leap out of the record-low levels it was plagued with at the end of meteorological winter .
“It’s kind of sad that I’m celebrating 65% of normal, but I’m celebrating 65% of normal in southwestern Utah right now because we were at 17% like four weeks ago,” he said Thursday during his monthly news conference with Utah reporters…