More of the white stuff

Winter is still humming along for most of the US…but we are starting to settle into the “late” winter pattern, where we see a few days of storm followed by a longer dry-period.

We were sort of unlucky to have the latest round of storms move over the Sierras and the Rockies this weekend…the Rockies in particular, since Aspen/Buttermilk Mountain were the home of the winter x-games this year. In fact the storm and new snowfall made conditions a bit treacherous at times. Check out some of the latest x-games news from Fuel.tv here.

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Anyway back to the weather (cause that is what we are here to talk about)…right now we are seeing a nice wet-low pressure holding position over the central United States. It will start to push slowly NE and clip the Eastern Great Lakes region as it moves into Canada over the next couple of days but in the meantime we can expect it to continue to dump new snow across the exposed resorts. Check out the NOAA national map…you can see the broad low stretching from the West Coast across the Rockies and into the Midwest states.



In particular this storm is going to drop a bit of new snow across Northern Colorado and Southern Wyoming ski resorts. Some of the top spots can expect nearly 10-12” of new snow over the next 24-48 hours.

The West Coast and the Sierras will also see another cold front, albeit slightly drier than the last one, move over the California coast on Monday and follow the other low-pressure in the middle of the country off into Canada by the middle of the week. There won’t be a ton of snow in the following system but we can still expect 1-3” of new snow for resorts like Mammoth and Tahoe before the storm moves on. Add that new pow to the stuff that fell earlier in the weekend and it makes for pretty nice conditions for those areas by the second half of the week.

Colorado and the rest of the Rockies look like they will be into sunnier, but probably winder, conditions by the end of the week as well.

Over on the East Coast it isn’t looking as snowy as the other parts of the country. There will be some new powder in the ever consistent “lake effect areas” where the major export is snow apparently…but not much else will be dropping over the NE…and as usual all we can expect in the SE is rain and mosquitoes.

Long-range is looking a bit bare…we have a new ridge of high-pressure building over the West Coast that is going to shut down the storm track for a few days…expect minimal snowfall through the end of the week and into next weekend. Looks like our next semi-significant snow will be early during the following week as some new weather starts to move into the Pacific NW and eventually hits the higher elevations in the Sierras.

Anyhoo that is all I got for tonight…I’ll be back with a new forecast by next Monday!