A happy final day of March to everyone!

Taos nabbed 4" with the passing of the cold front overnight, Sipapu 2", and a trace to an inch or so at Ski Santa Fe.

First chair groomers will ski lovely on Friday morning with a touch of freshness to send off March 2023 in fine fashion. Then I would look for leeward and wind-loaded northeast-facing terrain for the softest conditions once the groomers are tracked out.

On Friday morning just before 9 am, Taos Highline is shrouded in clouds, gusty winds, and blowing snow.

Whereas further south around Sandia Peak looking north toward Santa Fe we have low-hanging clouds smothering the southern Sangres like a Tia Sophia's breakfast burrito.

The rest of Friday will bring another round of strong winds and maybe a few snow showers in the northern mountains.

Looking ahead, I don't see any major snow-producing storms for New Mexico in the next 7-10 days.

We dry out Saturday through Monday with more windy spring conditions.

We should get a modest refresh of snow around April 4-5 and maybe something around April 9-10 way out in fantasy land.

Other than the winds, it could be a relatively quiet wind down to the lift-accessed season in the Land of Enchantment as the main storm track resides to our north the first week of April. The GFS Ensemble for liquid precipitation from April 1-7 shows the swath of better totals to our north.

The second week of April is way too far out to speculate, but the extended GFS Ensemble does show signals of more precipitation than the first week of April.

Perhaps we can conjure up some new snow for Ski Santa Fe's closing week.

Thanks for reading and I will post again on Sunday.

JULIEN ROSS
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New Mexico Geography Key

Northern Mountains
→ Red River, Taos Ski Valley (north side of northern mountains - Sangre de Cristos)
→ Angel Fire (northeast side of northern mountains - Sangre de Cristos)
→ Sipapu (middle of the northern mountains - Sangre de Cristos)
→ Ski Santa Fe (south side of the northern mountains - Sangre de Cristos)
→ Pajarito (southwest side of the northern mountains - Jemez)

Central Mountains
→ Sandia Peak (Sandias)
→ Mt. Taylor backcountry (San Mateos)

Southern Mountains
→ Ski Apache (Sacramentos)
→ Ski Cloudcroft (Sacramentos)