Opening Day is November 30th.

The weak storm on Thanksgiving Day came just a little later than I thought and dropped 1 inch of snow on the mid-mountain snow stake during the late evening hours. This amount of snow is not a game-changer, but it was welcome to see the flakes!

For Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, expect dry weather a lot of sunshine. High temperatures each day will be in the 20s with overnight lows cold enough for snowmaking.

For Tuesday, a weak storm should bring more clouds and maybe light snow. While odds for a lot of snow are low, odds for cooler temperatures are pretty good, so mountain crews will be able to make a lot more snow during the middle of the week.

The outlook from December 2-10 is still for little or no additional snow. Maybe the atmosphere will surprise us with a storm, but right now, the odds for this are low.

Something new in the longer-range forecast is that the European model is hinting about a potential storm around December 11th while other models are not going for this. We'll see how this shakes out.

On the positive side, all models are showing (and have shown) a flip to stormier weather during the final 10-ish days of December. It only takes a few weeks of stormy weather to get a lot of the mountain open, so fingers (and toes) crossed that the latter part of December delivers the flakes.

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

JOEL GRATZ
Meteorologist at OpenSnow.com

Snow conditions as of Friday morning

New snow mid-mountain:
* 1” (24 hours Thursday 500am to Friday 500am)
* 1” (Overnight Thursday 400pm to Friday 500am)

Last snowfall:
* 1” Thursday Night (Nov 26)

Terrain
* 0 of 23 lifts
* 0 of 152 trails
* Latest update

Snowpack compared to the 30-year average:
* 105%