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By Bryan Allegretto, Forecaster Posted 6 years ago December 3, 2017

Fresh Blanket of Snow and Cold Temps...

Summary

The The ski resorts are reporting anywhere from 3-5 inches. We picked up a coating up to a couple of inches at lake level. The skies are clearing and winds are dying down, but still gusting to 50 mph on the mountain tops. They will continue to come down through the day. High temperatures will only be in the 20's on the mountains and 30's at lake level. Tonight lows will drop into the teens. We start cold on Monday with highs in the 20's on the upper mountains and 30's at lake level. Then on Tuesday we warm into the 30's and then 40's for Wednesday. By the weekend temperatures may approach 50 at lake level. We are expecting sunny skies as a ridge of high pressure takes over the West blocking all storms through next weekend. Right now it looks like the dry pattern may continue through mid-month. The ridge should begin to shift NW and weaken as we go later in the month. Eventually storms may be able to break into CA.

Short Term Forecast

The snow didn't move in until close to midnight last night and most snow showers had ended by 6 a.m.  The fast moving storm pretty much did what we expected with 3-5 inches of snow being reported on the mountains and 1-2 inches at lake level. 

There are some spotty lingering snow showers this morning that will end now that most of the moisture has shifted into the Great Basin.  Below are the 6 a.m. reports.  Mt. Rose has added another inch as of 9 a.m.  Not expecting much additional accumulations to be reported.

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and the keep me honest final forecast versus actuals report...

comps

I was at the base of Squaw posting to the TahoeWeather social channels this morning at 6 a.m.  Here is a shot from the village.  

village

We should clear out this afternoon and then have sunny skies for Monday with cold temps and highs in the 30's.

The monster ridge over the West builds in the rest of the week into the weekend with temperatures slowly warming each day.  Highs will be in the 40's by Wednesday and close to 50 by next weekend.

Extended Forecast

No change to the forecast for a ridge in the West and a trough in the East over the next 2 weeks.

ridge in the west

By next weekend that brings above average temperatures.

temps

The only change by mid-month looks to be that the highest heights with the ridge of high pressure shift NW towards Alaska and the ridge weakens over the West. 

weak reidge

That may eventually allow storms to break into CA after mid-month.  The jet stream gets stronger as we go into Winter.  The GFS has had a few runs trying to break in storms the 3rd week of December, but right now we are just expecting dry conditions over the next 2 weeks. 

After today and tomorrow all of the snowfall shifts to Eastern North America.

eastern snow

We will have plenty of time to over analyze the return of storms starting this week.

Stay tuned...BA

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About Our Forecaster

Bryan Allegretto

Forecaster

Bryan Allegretto has been writing insightful posts about snow storms for over the last 15 years and is known as Tahoe's go-to snow forecaster. BA grew up in south Jersey, surfing, snowboarding, and chasing down the storms creating the epic conditions for both.

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