Colorado Daily Snow
By Joel Gratz, Founding Meteorologist Posted 8 years ago February 2, 2016
Quick update on Monday afternoon - good news!
This is one of those storms that is delivering powder to every mountain, and my social media feeds are going off with tons of pictures of folks enjoying the snow.
My previous forecast looks ok, but I did want to write this update on Monday afternoon as there are some areas that are seeing much more snow than I forecast.
The center of the storm is now spinning over south-central Colorado. You can see the center of this counter-clockwise spin in the infrared satellite image taken at about 4pm on Monday.
Source: Weathertap.com
The heaviest snow on Monday afternoon and Monday night should fall near and to the north of the center of the storm. You can already see this happening by looking for the blue and green colors just to the north of the center of the storm’s spin. These colors show colder cloud tops and taller clouds, which infer heavy snowfall rates.
One of the areas just to the north of the storm’s center is Aspen where an automated sensor on Aspen Mountain shows that it snowed about 8 inches in the five hours between 1pm and 5pm. The heavy snow is also falling at Beaver Creek and Crested Butte.
I think the same areas should see heavy snow, on-and-off, through about midnight on Monday night, and the heavy snow could expand a bit from its current position. Basically this means that you should keep an eye on webcams on Monday night and be ready to ski on Tuesday as it’ll be another great powder day for some areas.
I’ll write another full update early on Tuesday morning. Until then, sweet dreams of powder days ahead!
Thanks for reading, and yay for powder!!!
JOEL GRATZ
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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, Abasin, Winter Park, Berthoud Pass
East of the Divide
Eldora, Rocky Mountain National Park, Cameron Pass
Central Mountains
Aspen, Sunlight, Monarch, Crested Butte, Irwin, Powderhorn
Southern Mountains
Telluride, Silverton, Durango, Wolf Creek (Telluride and Silverton are on the northern side of the southern mountains)