The official snow report shows five inches of fresh flakes on Tuesday morning, with about half of this falling on Monday early afternoon and the other half falling on Monday night. Enjoy first tracks on Tuesday!

The weather for Tuesday, Tuesday night, and Wednesday will be snow showers mixed with breaks of sunshine. Most weather forecast models only show a few inches of snow possible during each day and night period, but sometimes these snow showers can produce more snow than expected. Also, multiple days of fresh snow can create phenomenal conditions that ski deeper than you’d think based on the snow report.

Snow showers could continue through Thursday, then Friday will be a sunny day, and the sunny weather should last through Friday, February 3rd. After that, the next storm should arrive in the western US and will likely bring snow back to Copper within a day or two of February 5th.

JOEL GRATZ, Meteorologist at OpenSnow.com