The storm delivered on Thursday afternoon and Thursday night with widespread moderate snow totals and a few amounts in the double digits. Below are snow totals based on snow stake cams:

11" Winter Park
10" Breckenridge
10" Eldora
6" Loveland
6" Snowmass
5" Arapahoe Basin
5" Aspen Mountain
3" Cooper
3" Copper
3" Vail

Almost all of the snow fell after lifts closed on Thursday afternoon, which means that it'll be fresh to enjoy on Friday morning. The goal will be to find places where you can't feel the bottom crunch. This should be doable at areas with double-digit totals and on groomed runs at areas with lower totals.

For the rest of Friday, expect snow showers through the day, especially near the divide and south to the eastern part of the southern mountains.

On Saturday into Saturday evening, most of the showers will be over the southern mountains. I have low confidence in the forecast, but the multi-model average shows a chance for 6+ inches for most of southern Colorado, so it's possible that there will be some powder later on Saturday and/or Sunday morning.

Sunday and Monday morning should be mostly dry.

Then from Monday afternoon through Tuesday morning, a fast-moving storm will bring significant snow to areas near and east of the divide and near and north of I-70. In the multi-model precipitation forecast below, blue colors show a good chance of 6+ inches, and the yellow colors signify a good chance for 10+ inches.

The majority of resorts will be closed by the time we see this storm on Monday into Tuesday, but a few will still be open:-)

The longer-range models do show additional chances for snow later next week (around April 22) and there could be yet another storm early during the following week (around April 27).

Stoke pictures!

I have a few more reader-submitted pictures to share over the coming week.

Here is a shot from a secret stash, inbounds, at Powderhorn from 3 years ago. We got a snow day off from work down in Grand Junction and this was our LAST run of the day. Here's hoping for more days like this one! -Dustin G.

Thanks for reading!

JOEL GRATZ

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Geography Key

Northern Mountains
Steamboat, Bluebird Backcountry, Granby, Beaver Creek, Vail, Ski Cooper, Copper, Breckenridge, Keystone, Loveland, Arapahoe Basin, 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