The storm on Sunday night delivered a LOT of snow. The snow stake was buried, from the 20 inches of snow that fell in a 12-hour period from Sunday midday to Sunday midnight.

Most other mountains in northern Colorado received 4-8 inches from this storm, but Copper was lucky and saw intense cells of snow move from south to north directly over the mountain. This amount of early-season snow should help to open a decent amount of terrain for Opening Day on Friday, November 8.

For the rest of the week, we'll see snow showers on Monday and Tuesday with little accumulation, another storm with 3-6 inches of snow on Tuesday night into early Wednesday, a few snow showers on Thursday and Friday, and then perhaps a few inches of additional snow on Friday night into Saturday. Temperatures will stay cool all week, so snowmaking should be possible around the clock.

Looking further ahead, the next storms should be around Tuesday, November 12 then during the weekend of November 16-18. Temperatures will remain cool through mid-month, so the snow guns will continue to crank.

My next update will be on Tuesday morning.

Thanks for reading!

JOEL GRATZ
Meteorologist at OpenSnow.com

Snow conditions as of Monday morning

New snow mid-mountain:
* 20” (24 hours Sunday 500am to Monday 500am)
* 14” (Overnight Sunday 500pm to Friday 500am)

Last snowfall:
* 20” Sunday Night (November 3-4)

Terrain
* 0 of 23 lifts
* 0 of 156 trails
* Latest update

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