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Conditions

• New Snow (Mid Mountain snow stake)
  • 2” Tuesday 500am to Wednesday 500am (24 hours)
  • 2” Tuesday 500pm to Wednesday 500am (12 hours)

• Last Snowfall
  • 20” Sunday Night to Tuesday Night (Feb 16-19)

• Snowpack
  • 117% of the 30-year average

• Terrain
  • 23 of 23 lifts
  • 159 of 161 trails

Wednesday

Following powder on Tuesday morning, and snow showers with little accumulation on Tuesday during the day, the final pieces of the storm moved overhead on Tuesday night and delivered 2-3 inches of snow at mid-mountain.

This new snow will be untouched on Wednesday morning and should ride nicely on top of a very soft base created by 20 inches of snow during the past 60 hours.

Following any lingering snow showers in the morning, Wednesday's weather will trend toward dry and partly sunny skies with a high temperature in the upper teens to low 20s.

Thursday & Friday

On Thursday and Friday, the next storm will bring snow to snow to Colorado.

I have higher confidence that snow totals will be in the 5-10 inch range due to a high amount of moisture plus storm energy that will track directly over the state. I also have higher confidence that the most snow will fall on Thursday night into Friday morning.

I still have low confidence about where the higher snow totals will fall.

This means that there is a chance for some new snow on Friday morning and higher-end 5-10-inch totals are possible with some luck. So keep your eye on the snow stake on Thursday night to see how this works out. I might have more confidence in the track of the storm and the location of the most snow by the time of my next forecast on Thursday morning, though no guarantees as this storm has not been handled consistently by most models.

Longer Range

From Saturday, February 22 to Sunday, March 2, there should be dry weather with high temperatures in the 30s. A storm might bring some snowflakes and cooler temperatures around Wednesday, February 26, but other than that, high temperatures should be in the 30s with sunshine on most of these days.

Further ahead, the next higher chance for snow will be around and after March 3.

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My next update will be on Thursday morning. 

Thanks for reading!

JOEL GRATZ
Meteorologist at OpenSnow.com