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By Evan Thayer, Forecaster Posted 10 years ago November 14, 2013

Storms are still on track to arrive starting tomorrow.  The first shortwave is fairly weak but will bring a few snow showers — and perhaps a few inches of snow — to the area tomorrow morning.  The second stronger and colder system will move in early Saturday, lasting into Saturday night.  The two storms together will combine to bring fairly significant snow to the mountains of Northern Utah.

The only difference from yesterday is that the most recent run of most models now show the system moving through the Northern Great Basin quickly rather than dropping and settling into the central Great Basin like they showed last night.  This faster movement will bring snow into the area sooner than expected on Saturday, but will also end precipitation faster on Saturday evening.  This will limit snowfall a bit.

Right now, I can break down our snowfall amounts like this:

  • Friday: 1-3″ Wasatch above 6,000′
  • Friday night: Break between systems
  • Saturday: Main storm day, 5-10″ Wasatch above 6,000′
  • Saturday night: Storm winds down, 1-3″ Wasatch above 6000′

Overall, it looks like 7-14″ for most of the Wasatch when you combine the first system with the second.  Places like the Cottonwoods, which are heavily favored by the northwest flow and potential for lake effect Saturday night, could see up to 18″.   Here is the NAM’s forecasted snowfall amounts for Alta:

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Photo Courtesy of weather.utah.edu

Alta is expected by the NAM to see over a foot.   The previous run to this one was showing upwards of 2 feet.  I think two feet is a little high, but I wouldn’t be surprised if we split the difference and saw closer to 18″.

Things still look very good.  Let’s just hope the models don’t get even faster or farther north.  Remember, this cold weather will also allow everybody to make plenty of man-made snow.  So it will go a long way, no matter what, to getting terrain open.

Evan | OpenSnow

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