Weather Guy: Closing up shop

Not a lot of snow coming down this week…and really we are heading toward the summer season so there aren’t going to many snow days left.



The current forecast have a low-pressure slowly moving through the Pacific NW and over to the North Eastern Rockies…putting a few inches of snow across Idaho, Montana, and a bit of northern Utah. This won’t be lasting all that long…the low should move on out to the north and will help keep Canada cold and pasty white for a couple of more weeks.

After that there isn’t a whole lot coming into to take its place. The long-range charts are showing some warmer low-pressures, more spring-like, push slowly through the west coast and the Pacific NW around the end of the week…potentially setting up a couple of very small pockets of snowfall at the higher elevations as we head into the upcoming weekend.

I think that we should probably start de-winterizing over the next several weeks…looks like spring is here to stay and summer is around the corner.

Dialing down the volume on new snow

There ain’t a lot of new snow forecast this week...granted it is the middle of spring...but storm action is definitely on the way down.

Right now we have two stubborn pockets of storminess...one over the Pacific NW (namely Washington) and the other over the Great Lakes area. Neither look particularly snowy...just sort of rainy and soggy. But there is still a chance at some lighter snow at the higher elevations.



Further out in the forecast it looks like there is a slim shot at some more light snow for the Pacific NW.

We actually have a cutoff low forming in the Pacific that is going to bring some moisture over the Sierras and the Rockies as we head toward the end of the week. It doesn’t look all that intense...and really it is way out in the forecasts so there is a good chance that it may not even pull together the way it is showing on the charts right now. Check it out...



If this does form up the way the models indicate it looks like we could have some more soggy conditions move through the Sierras by Friday and Saturday eventually hitting the Rockies on Sunday. Again this doesn’t look like much new snow...mostly just some dusting at the higher elevations...the lower altitude stuff is going to be mostly rainy and windy.

I wish I had more for you guys...but as we get close to summer (and the west coasts melts from record heat) I think the chance of snow is going to get pretty slim.

Well at least we got some surf on the way.