On Saturday, the combination of lingering moisture and a favorable wind direction produced about 3 inches of additional snowfall at mid-mountain. This increased our storm total to 6 inches, which was at the top end of my 3-6 inch expectation. We'll take it.

The forecast for Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday is for dry weather, mostly sunny skies (more clouds on Wednesday), and for chilly temperatures with a high in the teens on Sunday and Monday, and the 20s on Tuesday and Wednesday. The cool temperatures should allow the natural snowpack to stick around, and for crews to continue to make snow.

The longer-range forecast is looking 'interesting' with snow possible between Thursday, November 30, and Monday, December 4, though uncertainty in the forecast remains high.

From November 30 to December 1, snowfall might favor the southern half of Colorado (not Steamboat), and then from December 2-4, snowfall might favor the northern half of Colorado (including Steamboat).

We need one or two significant storms to open a lot more terrain, and I am not sure that this upcoming snowfall will do the trick, but we'll take any flakes we can get, and hopefully my daily updates trend toward more snow as next weekend's storm moves closer in time.

Thanks for reading!

JOEL GRATZ
Meteorologist at OpenSnow.com

Snow conditions as of Sunday morning

New snow mid-mountain (from the snow stake):
* 3” (24 hours Saturday 500am to Sunday 500am)
* 0” (Overnight Saturday 400pm to Sunday 500am)

New snow summit (from the snow stake):
* 1” (24 hours Saturday 500am to Sunday 500am)
* 0” (Overnight Saturday 400pm to Sunday 500am)

Last snowfall:
* 6” Friday to Saturday Night (Nov 24-26)

Terrain
* 2 of 23 lifts
* 7 of 181 trails
* Latest update

Snowpack compared to the 30-year average:
* 49%