Oooh look snow!

Great news…after sort of a slow week of new snow it looks like our storm track is finally putting it back into gear and we should see new snow for most of the Pacific NW, the Rockies, and the Northeast resorts.

In fact we already have a nice low-pressure moving across the country that is dropping new snow on the Rockies, the northern Midwest States, the Southern Great Lakes, and the New York/Vermont areas. Check it out…the blue color = new snow.



It hasn’t dropped a ton of snow yet but many of the Colorado resorts like Aspen and Vail are expecting somewhere between 5-8 inches over Monday night and into Tuesday morning. The already have a rideable base a few of the resorts so this is only going to help break it open.

Here is the latest NWS National Map…you can see that low-pressure is extending down from Canada and is merging with some wetter/warmer low-pressure around the middle of the US…it is this front and the energy being transferred out of the warmer/wet low that is kickstarting the snowfall.



High pressure rebuilds across the middle of the US as we move through the middle of the week and pushes a lot of the cooler weather/snowfall up into Canada so most of the US resorts will see better weather but less snow as we head through Tuesday...



Things do start to get really interesting as we head toward next weekend…it looks like a heavy duty ridge of high pressure will develop out in the NPAC but stay off of land…which in turn creates a vacuum of low-pressure around the West Coast and through to the Rockies…this looks like it will draw up some moist air from the South and some colder airmass from the North and mix it all up over most of Western Half of the US. This, plus the cooler air from the North will set up some ideal snow producing conditions and the forecast models are showing a pretty large area of potential new snow.



So it looks like we could lots of fun conditions and new powder for the next few days, particularly through Colorado and up around British Columbia. Then things settle down through the middle of the week before lighting back up as we head toward next weekend. Hopefully we will get some super-dump as we get closer to the holiday break.

Have a good one...next forecast will be posted on Monday Dec 15th!