WTF happened to winter?…oh there it is

Ok…besides some pockets up in the NE and Eastern Canada, where they got hit by an always lovely “Alberta clipper", there hasn’t been much winter-like weather.

The Pacific NW and California have been in full-on summer mode with nearly 80-degree weather and blinding sunshine. Even the normally socked in San Fran Bay Area was sunny and 70.

The culprit has been a couple of wicked high-pressure holding over the high desert areas between the Sierras and the Rockies. They have basically locked down storm movement for most of the US except for the cold dry systems that slip in from Canada (aka winter’s summer house).



Unfortunately these high-pressures are not going anywhere for the next few days…so we will have more nice weather and slushy mountain conditions for most of the US western resorts.

The only new snow that we are going to see this work week is the activity holding around the great lakes that is threatening to continue to drop new snow over the next couple of days. The Southern Great-lakes areas like Ohio will have another 1-2” of snow through Wednesday. Further east the New York and New England states will have 3-4” of new snow…possible close to 6” at some of the luckier resorts.

Long-range is looking a lot more interesting.



The ridges do break down in about 3-days and shift to the east as they start to erode. At the same time we see three storms, one coming right over California, another slipping in from the Gulf of Alaska, and a third low-pressure that moves out of mainland Mexico. This is going to develop some dynamic atmospheric mixing, you know… the sort of shit that means bad news for Trailer Parks everywhere.

From this new mix of systems I am expecting much more new snow to begin falling at higher elevations across the Sierras by Thursday and the Rockies by the upcoming weekend. It is hard to tell how much will come down at this point but with the more humid/warm moisture moving in from the South I think we could get a decent dusting at a few of the resorts. I think by the middle-end of next week it would be good to already have a tripped planned somewhere fun.

Anyways…work on your tan for the next couple of days and then start gearing up for the upcoming weekend and next week.