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By Mike Korotkin, Meteorologist Posted 1 year ago January 31, 2023

Mid-Winter Dryness

Summary

An extended dry period begins today, Tuesday. We'll be warming up throughout the week into the 40's with plenty of sun. Our next chance for snow/rain is likely more than 10 days out, so we'll have to be patient through a mid - winter dry streak.

Short Term Forecast

Storm Recap

In typical fashion... it's always hard for me to get totals snowfall numbers from several resorts. Mtn. High reported yesterday morning  that they received 4 inches. Now this morning they are saying that 3 - 5 inches fell yesterday yet their total for new snow in the last 7 days only shows 5 inches. So to me it sounds like only 5 inches fell total... While I think this is low I really have no way of truly verifying exactly what fell yesterday. 

The only resort that makes sense to me is Snow Valley and they report 5- 8 inches total, which is right within the forecast range. Bear Mtn. and Snow Summit really did not do well in this one and likely because of more North and Northeast flow. They only got 3 inches total and Mt. Baldy looks like they picked up around 6 - 8 inches of snow, which was also in the range. 

Mtn. High's reports often do not make sense to me so hopefully I can figure that out by reaching out to them. One of the other issues is that while I'm assuming that when mtns report 2 numbers it's the base and summit numbers but I really have no way of knowing exactly where they measure, so that's another element of surprise to me. 

Either way the storm performed about as expected and now we'll enter into an extended dry period. 

Tuesday - Sunday 

Here's the OpenSnow forecast for Snow Summit:

We're going to see sunny and dry weather for the rest of the week and into next week. Highs will be cold today in the 20's but quickly jump into the mid 40's by Friday and Saturday. Winds will be breezy today out of the Northeast up to 25 MPH but then decrease through the rest of the week before increasing a bit again on Sunday out of the Southwest.

Expect plenty of sun and warmer temps this week with no snow or rain. 

Extended Forecast

If you've been reading the last few days you know that there really isn't much of a good chance for rain or snow going into next week as well... The forecast looks quite dry all of next week. 

As you can see from above the pattern is going to favor the Pacific Northwest and Northern Rockies and definitely not the desert Southwest. 

The GFS Ensembles show even less chances for precip going into next week and beyond so we really might be stuck in a pretty dry pattern for a while:

We'll just have to see how it plays out as we get closer but for now I believe we'll see a 10 day break from active weather. 

Till the next one... Mike out. 

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About Our Forecaster

Mike Korotkin

Meteorologist

Mike graduated from UC Berkeley with a Bachelor’s in Atmospheric Science and received his Masters in Atmospheric Science at the University of Nevada Reno. He grew up in Southern California by the beach, but quickly realized he loved the mountains, so his first memories were of the SoCal mountains where he saw snow for the first time. He started skiing in his 20’s and is now an avid skier and backpacker at locations up and down the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

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