Thursday morning was fun with fluffy powder on top and a reasonably soft base on the bottom.

Snow showers continued on Thursday morning, bringing a few more inches, and then snow showers kicked up again during the afternoon and evening for some northern mountains.

Below are the storm totals from (Wednesday/Wednesday night) + (Thursday/Thursday night) = Storm Total

10” + 4” = 14” Silverton
9” + 5” = 14” Steamboat
7” + 5” = 12” Vail
8” + 4” = 12” Winter Park
9” + 2” = 11” Breckenridge
9” + 2” = 11” Sunlight
7” + 3” = 10” Beaver Creek
9” + 1” = 10” Copper
8” + 2” = 10” Telluride
7” + 2” = 9” Aspen Mountain
6” + 2” = 8” Aspen Highlands
7” + 1” = 8” Cooper
8” + 0” = 8” Monarch
6” + 1” = 7” Keystone
6” + 1” = 7” Loveland
6” + 1” = 7” Snowmass
6” + 0” = 6” Arapahoe Basin
6” + 0” = 6” Crested Butte
5” + 0” = 5” Buttermilk
5” + 0” = 5” Eldora
3” + 0” = 3” Powderhorn

On Friday morning, conditions won’t be as deep as Thursday morning but the snow should be super soft thanks to cool temperatures and the additional flakes that we saw on Thursday. Clouds will stick around the northern mountains while skies should go sunny for other mountains.

On Saturday, we’ll see sunshine and warmer temperatures rising into the 30s.

On Sunday, temperatures will cool a few degrees and we might see a few more clouds.

Our next chance for snow should start on Sunday after sunset and continue through Monday around sunset. The northern mountains will be favored and I’ll stick with the low/moderate range of 2-7 inches. Monday will likely offer low-end powder amounts with some fresh snow for first chair and more falling during the day. This map shows precipitation and multiply by about 15 to estimate snow.

At this point, it looks like Tuesday and Wednesday will be dry.

Then the next stormy periods should be around Thursday and Friday, January 9-10, and around Sunday and Monday, January 12-13. It’s also likely that we’ll see additional storms after the 13th as an active pattern continues over the western US, though beyond the 13th is too far away for us to have any confidence in the timing of any individual storm.

Thanks for reading!

My next update will be on Saturday morning.

JOEL GRATZ

Geography Key

Northern Mountains
Steamboat, Granby, Beaver Creek, Vail, Ski Cooper, Copper, Breckenridge, Keystone, Loveland, Abasin, Winter Park, Berthoud Pass, Eldora, Rocky Mountain National Park, Cameron Pass

Along the Divide
Loveland, Arapahoe Basin, Winter Park, Berthoud Pass

East of the Divide
Eldora, Echo, Rocky Mountain National Park, Cameron Pass

Central Mountains
Aspen, Sunlight, Monarch, Crested Butte, Irwin, Powderhorn

Southern Mountains
Telluride, Silverton – north side of the southern mountains | Purgatory, Wolf Creek – south side of the southern mountains