Following dry weather for most of Monday, snow fell as expected between Monday evening and the pre-dawn hours of Tuesday morning. 

The deepest totals over a wide area were just east of the northern divide where Eldora's snow stake shows 14 inches (the resort is closed) and there were 8-12 inches near Rocky Mountain National Park and north to Cameron Pass. 

Other winners included Winter Park where their snow stake shows 14 inches, as well as Breckenridge where 10 inches accumulated.

14" Eldora (closed)
13" Winter Park
10" Breckenridge
9-12" Rocky Mountain National Park
8" Cameron Pass
6" Copper
6" Loveland
3" Arapahoe Basin
3" Snowmass

Thanks to just the right temperatures during the storm (which are now in the single digits) the snow is very fluffy. Usually, this is a good thing, but during the springtime, we often want snow that's just a little thicker so that it cushions the usually harder base underneath. But we are not going to complain about a foot of fluff!

Following the storm, Tuesday will be mostly sunny and mostly dry.

Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday will bring more snow showers with 3-6+ inches of total accumulation over the central and northern mountains. I continue to have low confidence in this forecast. The best chance to find softer snow might be Thursday and Friday with a chance for Saturday morning as well. The map below shows the multi-model precipitation forecast with blue colors indicating 6+ inches of snow. Temperatures during these three days will be warmer, in the 20s and 30s, so the snow that does fall should be of moderate to somewhat thicker quality.

Saturday and Sunday will be dry and warmer. Saturday's highs should be in the 30s to 40s and Sunday's highs should be in the 40s to 50s.

The next chance for a storm will be around April 27-28. This looks like a moderate-strength event with snow possible for all mountains across Colorado.

Beyond that, the longer-range models continue to show storms in the forecast as we head into early May.

Photos

I have a few more (fantastic) reader-submitted photos and I will post all of them on Wednesday, April 21st. 

Thanks for reading!

JOEL GRATZ

New Book!

There is a new book called "Hunting Powder: A Skier's Guide to Finding Colorado's Best Snow" and I think it's a great read for you if you are somewhat of a geek about snow and weather forecasting here in Colorado and looking to deepen your knowledge about meteorology and finding deep snow. This book is somewhere between a textbook and a 'what you need to know' guide to forecasting and I am mentioning it here because I reviewed the book and wrote the forward:-) Check out more details and please do consider buying a copy: http://opsw.co/HuntingPowder

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