Tuesday was a mostly sunny and cold day with temperatures that started below 0°F and warmed to about 10°-15°F. The cold temperatures and the low sun angle of late December are keeping the snow surface soft.

Wednesday will again start cold but we’ll see plenty of sunshine with temperatures warming to 25°-30°F degrees. Expect more clouds later in the afternoon.

Thursday will be cooler with a high temperature of around 20°F. Despite a nearby storm and a drop in temperatures, we should stay dry with mostly sunny skies during the second half of the day.

For Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, temperatures will finally warm up with highs in the 20s on Friday and highs in the 30s on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.

Our next chance for snow will start around Tuesday, December 24th and we could see chances for snow for much of the rest of the week.

However, I am keeping my expectations to just low snow totals because it appears that the storms will track toward Colorado from the southwest and this is generally not a good direction to produce big snow accumulations.

There is always a chance for deeper accumulations if a storm's energy happens to take a more favorable track, but we won’t be able to have confidence in this type of detail until the storms move closer.

Thanks for reading and check back each morning for daily updates!

JOEL GRATZ
Meteorologist at OpenSnow.com
Contact me: [email protected]

Snow conditions as of Wednesday morning

New snow mid-mountain:
* 0” (24 hours Tuesday 500am to Wednesday 500am)
* 0” (Overnight Tuesday 400pm to Wednesday 500am)

Last snowfall:
* 27” from Thursday – Monday (Dec 12-16)

Terrain
* 16 of 23 lifts
* 100 of 148 trails
* Latest update

Snowpack compared to the 30-year average:
* 139%