Friday was another gorgeous day with partly-to-mostly sunny skies and high temperatures that made it to the 40s. I love powder days, but I also love sunny spring skiing, and this past week has been full of amazing spring days.

Saturday will also be dry and warm with temperatures making it into the 40s. We will see high-and-mid-level clouds filtering the sunshine at times.

Sunday will bring more clouds and a chance for showers through the day. Daytime temperatures will continue to be warm, in the 30s, so any showers that do hit the mountain on Sunday could fall as raindrops at the base with snowflakes for mid-mountain and above.

Sunday night will be our best chance for accumulating snowfall. Since the storm will bring randomly-placed showers rather than steady snow, our snow accumulation could be anything from a dusting if the showers mostly miss the mountain, to 5+ inches if some of these showers happen to track directly over the mountain. With cooling temperatures overnight, snowflakes should make it down to the elevation of the base area.

Monday morning will be our best chance to enjoy whatever fresh snow falls on Sunday night. Let’s keep our snowfall expectations to just a few inches knowing that we could still be underwhelmed or surprised on the high side thanks to the random placement of the showers. The second half of Monday should be dry as the storm moves away from Colorado.

For the middle of the week from Tuesday through Wednesday, it is possible that we’ll see a few showers thanks to lingering moisture and storm energy near Colorado, but my current expectation is for light or no accumulation.

For the end of next week from Thursday through Friday, we will have another chance for snow. The latest forecast trend for this storm is that it’ll take a more southerly track, which would reduce our chance of significant snow.

I am watching next weekend through mid-March for additional storms, though there is zero consistency in any of the model forecasts, so we’ll just need to do our snow dances and hope that storms, which will be lurking around Colorado, happen to move over us and bring us a mid-month powder day.

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 Saturday morning

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

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

Terrain
* 23 of 23 lifts
* 148 of 149 trails
* Latest update

Snowpack compared to the 30-year average:
* 128%