Saturday was sunny and warm with high temperatures rising into the 30s and low 40s. 

Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday will bring more of the same with dry weather and warm temperatures topping out in the 30s and 40s. There will be times when high, thin clouds move across Colorado and filter the sunshine. 

The only wrinkle to this warm and sunny weather will be on Monday late morning or midday when there will be more clouds and perhaps a few snowflakes or raindrops will fall from the sky. This will NOT be an impactful system and we might see no precipitation at all.

The springtime weather for the next few days will produce typical springtime riding conditions, with firm and crunchy snow early in the morning, and then we will see the snow soften and warm up during the late morning, midday, and afternoon. If and when thin clouds filter the sunshine, the snow-softening process during the morning could be delayed just a bit.

The good news is that we will see chances for snow every day and night from Tuesday night through the weekend. The bad news is that I have little to no confidence about how much snow we could see during these days or which of the days could bring the most snow. The wind direction during most of this time will be from an unfavorable direction (southwest, south, or east) and this usually limits the amount of snow we can see. But we’ll also experience rounds of storm energy moving over Colorado, which can at times overwhelm the unfavorable wind direction and create more snow.

Looking farther ahead to early the following week, around Monday and Tuesday, March 15-16, another system could track into Colorado from the west and northwest and this should be the time when we see our next chance for snow.

I am sorry for the vagueness of the longer-range forecast, but sometimes that’s just how it goes!

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

JOEL GRATZ
Meteorologist at OpenSnow.com

Snow conditions as of Sunday morning

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

Last snowfall:
* 5” Thursday (Mar 4)

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

Snowpack compared to the 30-year average:
* 81%