On Tuesday, more terrain opened in the Sunshine area. Good news:-)

Now on Wednesday morning, the mid-mountain snow stake shows no new snow, and this is as we expected since the upcoming storm will track to the south of Colorado.

From Wednesday to Thursday, the southern storm will only bring us clouds and occasional snow showers with a low chance of meaningful snow accumulations. Temperatures each day should top out in the upper 20s to low 30s.

From Friday through the middle of next week, Colorado and most of the Rockies will be in a dry weather pattern, so look forward to sunshine and warm-ish temperatures with daytime on-mountain highs in the 30s. The low sun angle of mid-December will preserve our snowpack, but we will not see any new snow.

The longer-range forecast continues to hint at a return to stormy weather during the final 5-10 days of December. However, I do not know when the next storm will arrive, as some of the longer-range data shows snow returning as early as Thursday, December 21st while other data shows that we might need to wait until December 23-25 for the next storm. Let's hope that snow during the final week-ish of December makes up for the upcoming week of dry weather!

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:
* 3” Sunday Night (Dec 10-11)

Terrain
* 15 of 23 lifts
* 81 of 181 trails
* Latest update

Snowpack compared to the 30-year average:
* 99%