Winter ain’t over yet

Mother Nature isn’t quite ready for winter to wind down…yeah it isn’t as gnarly as we saw through January and February but there is still some strong storm action taking place across the Pacific NW, Idaho, and a few of the Rocky Mountain states.

Check out the National Weather Service National map…



You can see all of the storm action bunching up just off the Pacific NW Coastline and backing into the Gulf of Alaska. This is actually going to be the dominant weather trend over the next few days as a decent low sits right off the coast of Canada and feeds some smaller storms right into the upper US latitudes.

What this means snowise is that we have already had about 8-10” of new snow falling across Oregon and Washington (and BC)…the storm that just dropped that snow is already moving further east and is holding over Idaho, Montana, Northern Utah, and Western Wyoming. I am seeing some reports of Jackson Hole pulling in about 1-foot of new powder…and it looks like it is going to get another 6-8” inches over the next few days.

This storm eventually shifts north of the border and tweaks some of the central Canadian resorts before dipping down back into the Great Lakes (and the NE areas affected by lake effect snow) by later in the week.

The Pacific NW dries out over the next couple of days and could set up some awesome boarding conditions if the winds can stay down. If you are close to the Washington/Oregon resorts I would probably keep an eye on the hills around mid-week…you might get a chance for some fresh pow and light crowds.

Other areas around the Country like California and the more easterly NE resorts are going to get left out of the fun…expect sunnier but harder pack conditions than those areas that I highlighted.

This is about all I got for now…I would keep an eye on the Pacific NW later in the week, there may be some new storm action starting to push through the region as we head into the weekend.