Thanks to lingering moisture and weak storm energy, I thought that we might see some snowflakes on Thursday and Thursday night but expected accumulations to be light.

The atmosphere had another idea, though, and it delivered 2 inches of snow across the mountain, mostly on Thursday night. Enjoy the new flakes. Sure, 2 inches isn’t a big number, but every little bit of snow helps to improve the surface, and cruising groomers with a bit of new snow on top is super fun.

On Friday, snow showers could continue, especially during the morning and again during the afternoon.

Then from Friday late afternoon through Saturday night, pieces of storm energy will move across Colorado. The wind direction during most of this time will be from the southwest, which is NOT favorable for intense snowfall and deep totals for us. But, any piece of stronger storm energy which tracks over us can overwhelm the bad wind direction and create periods of moderate to intense snow. We should see at least a few inches from Friday night through Saturday night and there could be soft-ish turns on Saturday.

From Sunday through Monday, we might trend toward drier weather with leftover soft snow on Sunday morning.

Then from late Monday night through Wednesday, another round of storm energy could deliver snow showers with a few inches of accumulation.

For snowfall from Friday night through next Tuesday, I am keeping my expectations low due to the unfavorable wind direction with maybe 4-8 inches across these four days. However, as I mentioned, any random piece of storm energy could stir up the atmosphere enough to drop more significant snow totals.

I think we will see dry weather, or at least drier weather, from later Wednesday through next Friday morning.

Then the next chances for storms should be around January 29-30, and again during the following week around February 2-4. Models are showing that the storms in early February could take a more favorable west-to-east or northwest-to-southeast track across Colorado. Fingers crossed.

Thanks for reading and check back each morning for daily updates!

JOEL GRATZ
Meteorologist at OpenSnow.com

Snow conditions as of Friday morning

New snow mid-mountain:
* 2” (24 hours Thursday 500am to Friday 500am)
* 2” (Overnight Thursday 400pm to Friday 500am)

New snow summit:
* 2” (24 hours Thursday 500am to Friday 500am)
* 2” (Overnight Thursday 400pm to Friday 500am)

Last snowfall:
* 2” Thursday Night to Friday (Jan 21-22)

Terrain
* 15 of 18 lifts
* 163 of 169 trails
* Latest update

Snowpack compared to the 30-year average:
* 62%