Welcome to the start of the 2023-2024 season! Unfortunately, this season is starting with a much lower snowpack compared to average and compared to last season, so there are only a handful of lower-mountain trails open at the moment.

Wednesday and Thursday will be dry and warm-ish days with high temperatures in the 30s to low 40s. Wednesday will be mostly sunny and Thursday will be mostly cloudy with high, thin clouds filtering the sunshine.

From Thursday night to Saturday afternoon, a storm will bring snow to the mountain, but the track of the storm and the wind direction will not be all that favorable for us. I expect just light snow on Thursday night into Friday morning, perhaps a few more intense waves of snow on Friday afternoon and Friday night, and then snow showers to linger on Saturday with a few inches of additional accumulation as the wind direction becomes more favorable yet the moisture decreases. In total, I think 3-6 inches is a reasonable estimate for this storm. These are not big snow totals, but we'll take any snow that we can get.

The temperature forecast is looking favorable for the snow cover to stick around and for snowmaking to continue, with high temperatures in the teens during Saturday and Sunday and high temperatures in the 20s for all of next week.

The longer-range forecast shows a high chance for dry weather for all of next week, and then a chance for the next storm sometime in the December 2-7 timeframe. We need multiple significant storms to deepen our base and open a lot more terrain across the mountain, and while this will not happen by early December, with some luck, perhaps we will see multiple storms by mid-December.

Thanks for reading!

JOEL GRATZ
Meteorologist at OpenSnow.com

Snow conditions as of Wednesday morning

New snow mid-mountain (from the snow stake):
* 0” (24 hours Tuesday 500am to Wednesday 500am)
* 0” (Overnight Tuesday 400pm to Wednesday 500am)

New snow summit (from the snow stake):
* 0” (24 hours Tuesday 500am to Wednesday 500am)
* 0” (Overnight Tuesday 400pm to Wednesday 500am)

Last snowfall:
* 6” Saturday Night to Monday Night (Nov 18-20)

Terrain
* 1 of 23 lifts
* ? of 181 trails
* Latest update

Snowpack compared to the 30-year average:
* 50%