Ski Utah Daily Snow
By Evan Thayer, Forecaster Posted 5 years ago February 19, 2019
Somehow... Snow continues...
Summary
Lake-effect and orograhically enhanced snow showers overnight brought up to 5" of new snow in Little Cottonwood Canyon. Several other resorts reporting a couple inches this morning. Snow showers will continue today. A system for Wednesday-Friday will bring additional chances for snow with the most significant snow falling in southern Utah.
Short Term Forecast
I just have to laugh, the snow just does not want to stop. For the third consecutive night, my (very) unofficial snow stake -- a Walter White / Heisenberg bobblehead -- got covered. This time, it was a combination of lake-effect snow off the GSL and shallow orographic lift on the east side of the Salt Lake Valley. Tooele Valley saw more significant accumulation. It's still snowing and lake-effect snow could continue thru the morning. Up in the mountains, the light NW flow has just been enough for LCC to do it's thing. 5" of new snow reported at both Alta and Snowbird. Not particularly deep perhaps, but the great ski conditions continue!
Aside from lake effect snow, we will also have a weak disturbance pass through today. This disturbance normally wouldn't do much for us, but with the airmass we have in place and the help of diurnal heating, we should see some snow showers fire up this afternoon. Not expecting any big accumulation, but don't be surprised to experience a snow shower this afternoon.
The next storm pushes in on Wednesday into Thursday for northern Utah. We'll see snow in Northern Utah but accumulations should remain modest. The best energy from this system will track west, then south. Southern Utah will do far better with 1-2 FEET of snow possible by Friday.
You can see that southern Utah is in the crosshairs for this storm. Speaking of Southern Utah, I will be down there tonight thru Friday and filming Weather Wednesday forecast video for @VisitUtah. Perfect timing for a classic Southern Utah pow chase!
Snow will diminish by Friday morning in the north and Friday night in the south. We should have a break in the action thru Saturday.
Extended Forecast
Another storm system is timing for Sunday into early next week but the details are all over the place in the models right now. Not looking like a major system, but moderate accumulations are certainly possible. The temperatures will continue to be cool thru the long range which will keep the snow quality excellent.
Evan | OpenSnow