Wednesday was a brilliant spring day with perfectly blue skies and temperatures that rose into the upper 30s.

Thursday should be a near carbon copy of Wednesday. Expect sunshine all day with temperatures topping out in the upper 30s.

Friday and Saturday will also be dry and warm with temperatures likely making it into the low 40s. We will see high-and-mid-level clouds filtering the sunshine at times each day. These clouds will move into Colorado well in advance of our next storm, which will arrive late in the weekend.

Sunday and Monday will likely be mostly cloudy with at least a few inches of snowfall. It looks like the first chance of flakes could arrive by late Saturday night or Sunday morning, and we might hang onto snow through Monday morning. This storm will be warm, with the chance for raindrops at the base and snow for most of the mountain. My early estimate for accumulations is 2-8 inches.

Later Monday through Wednesday is a wildcard. One model insists that a cooler storm will bring more snow. One model insists that we’ll see dry weather. And a third model is somewhere in-between the other two models. So I really have no idea what will happen, but I am keeping my expectations low and will be happily surprised if the colder and snowier scenario pans out.

From later Wednesday through Friday (March 11-13) we should see another warm and high-moisture-content system push in from the southwest. It’s too soon for me to guess at potential accumulations. Stay tuned.

Looking out into the long-range beyond 10 days, it’s a mixed bag. Some models show a continuation of the current pattern with warmer weather and occasional storms. Other models show a colder system (or two) pushing into Colorado around mid-March. We’ll see how it shakes out!

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 Thursday morning

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

Last snowfall:
* 4” from Sunday to Monday (Mar 1-2)

Terrain
* 22 of 23 lifts
* 146 of 149 trails
* Latest update

Snowpack compared to the 30-year average:
* 129%