Southern California Daily Snow
By Mike Korotkin, Meteorologist Posted 1 year ago March 23, 2023
A Drier Stretch
Summary
We should see drier weather over the next few days. Temps will be cool and winds will be light. A system is possible next week that could bring more snow and rain but the details are still evolving. It's likely we could see more dry weather at the end of next week as well.
Short Term Forecast
Storm Recap
Mtn. High reported another 2 - 4 inches of snow in the last 24 hours. Their 3 day total was 24 - 30 inches. Snow Valley received another 6 - 8 inches bringing their storm total up to 40 - 46 inches of snow! Big Bear Mtn. doesn't show un updated snowfall total from yesterday but just shows around 3 FT of snow for the storm total. Mt. Baldy reports 3.5 FT since Sunday.
Basically every resort was either in my forecast range like Mtn. High or exceeded it like the Big Bear Mtns. The expectations were good that this would be a very promising storm to deliver multi-foot totals and that's exactly what we saw. I can't say this for certain but it may very well be the last significant multi-foot storm of the season.... but then again this sure has been the winter of surprises.
Next 5 Days
We are getting a nice break that's more than just a day or 2. Check out the forecast below for Mt. Baldy:
You can see that our precip chances are quite low for the next 5 days. It's unlikely we see any accumulations in the next 5 days. Temps will be quite cool for this time of year in the upper 20's and low 30's. You can see the strongest winds will be Thursday and Friday of this week and then they die down into the 15 - 20 MPH range into the weekend.
We won't have a large high pressure over us so we won't be warming up significantly but there will be just enough high pressure to keep any moisture to our North and keep us mostly dry. I'm sure everyone could use the break after this latest round of storms and the big snow storm that wrapped up last night.
Extended Forecast
There is still the possibility we could see another quick hitting and weaker storm next week. You can see on the Ensemble Means below for Snow summit that both the GFS and Euro show increased precip around the Tuesday & Wednesday time frame.
The GFS comes in a little earlier with the storm but the energy with this storm stays further to the North.
The Euro brings in the storm a bit later but also shows more energy moving further South with the system, which would increase our precip & snowfall amounts.
I believe we'll get something out of it but I'm not certain on the details just yet.
I'll keep you posted as we get closer.
Till the next one... Mike out.
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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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