Needless to say despite the shift in seasons there are still a few regions that are sporting some freshies.
Right now we have a group of low-pressures that are moving through the Rockies and over into the Great Lakes area. This latest round of storms dumped quite a bit of snow in resorts on the western Rockies including areas in Montana, Utah, Idaho and Wyoming. Colorado had some new powder too but it was quite a bit lighter than the spots further north.
This storm is making its way over North Dakota/Minnesota but will slip up into Canada before it gets to the NE...eventually it will clip over Maine during the second half of the week but it will have lost a lot of its intensity.
The forecast is showing the NE and the Midwest to dry out slowly over the next couple of days but it isn’t going to stay clear for long. There is a new low-pressure system that moves over the Pacific NW later on Monday night and will slowly grind over Washington and Oregon before traveling SE towards Colorado (overtop everywhere in-between). The current snow forecast is calling for many spots in OR and WA to get several inches of new snow and in some places, like Stevens Pass, Mt Bachelor, and Mt Hood, nearly a foot of new snow. This will continue for most of the week as the storm moves super slow through the region. There is a good shot that we will see higher snowfall totals than what the short-range charts are calling for.
Conditions for the Pacific NW should start to improve, slightly, by next weekend...so if you live in the region or have a little extra coin it might be worth a trip up to your favorite mountain. Hopefully the winds and the weather will back down enough that we don’t freeze our collective asses off.
The Rockies will see this forecasted storm move into the region around the middle of the week, really the low stretches from the Pacific NW to the Rockies so there will be snow all across the region most of the week but the most intense part of the system will arrive in the Rockies...particularly Utah, Colorado, Wyoming...around Thursday, and then hold into Friday. Snowfall won’t be as heavy as what we see in Oregon...but there will still be several inches of new snow by the upcoming weekend.
The rest of the US looks a bit wetter as this storm moves further east. Looks like it is going to run into some warmer airmass as it moves over the Midwest and the East Coast...it won’t be “warm” but instead of snowing it will have icy rain, tornados, and other nastiness. Yeah for springtime!
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