Copper Mountain Daily Snow
By Joel Gratz, Founding Meteorologist Posted 4 years ago February 12, 2020
Update
Tuesday was a beautiful day with blue skies, sunshine all day, and temperatures warming into the teens during the day.
On Tuesday night, a storm approached with more clouds, and we saw light snow begin just before sunrise on Wednesday morning.
From Wednesday morning through Thursday night, the storm will bring clouds, cool temperatures hovering in the teens, and we’ll see snow showers all day Wednesday, Wednesday night, and maybe lingering through Thursday midday. Even though we’ll have decently strong storm energy which will help to create snow, moisture will be limited, so I think our total snowfall will be in the low-to-moderate range, around 1-4 inches. Any flakes are good flakes, and I hope that this new snow will at least create some soft-on-groomer conditions on Wednesday and/or Thursday.
Following the storm, clouds will dissipate on Thursday evening and Friday should be a beautiful day with mostly sunny skies all day and temperatures warming into the upper 20s to low 30s.
The next storm could bring a burst of light snow from Friday night into Saturday morning with a dusting to 3 inches of accumulation. Like the storm on Wednesday/Thursday, this won’t be a significant snow producer, but we’ll take the flakes and we might enjoy a little bit of new snow on the groomers on Saturday morning.
The next chance for significant snow will be from Sunday through Tuesday. This storm has the potential to deliver 5-10+ inches, though I am not going to jump on the bandwagon just yet because multiple forecast models do not yet agree about the details of this storm. If the snowfall comes to fruition, the best chance for powder could be Sunday afternoon, Monday, and/or Tuesday morning.
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:
* 14” from Saturday Night to Monday Night (Feb 8-10)
Terrain
* 23 of 23 lifts
* 146 of 149 trails
* Latest update
Snowpack compared to the 30-year average:
* 127%