Wednesday

Wednesday was a lovely day with lots of sunshine and temperatures in the 30s and 40s.

Thursday

Thursday will be a mixed day with some sunshine and also some clouds as the next storm approaches Colorado. The high temperature should be in the 30s, just a few degrees cooler than Wednesday.

Friday

The storm will move into Colorado but I think a lot of the day will be dry and mostly cloudy with a high in the low 30s. Snow showers could begin on the mountain late in the afternoon or early evening.

Friday Night to Sunday Morning

Friday night will bring showery/banded snowfall and I have low confidence in the amount of new snow. We could see just a few inches, or we might measure 8+ inches. I'm not sure.

From Saturday morning through Sunday morning, I am more confident that we will see steady and significant snowfall due to a favorable wind direction from the west-northwest. The combination of this favorable wind direction, plentiful moisture, and slowly cooling temperatures should yield increasingly good powder conditions from Saturday morning through Sunday morning.

For snow quality, Saturday should be a fun powder day with snow getting deeper throughout the day and transitioning from thicker quality on Friday night to fluffier quality by later on Saturday. And Sunday morning could be quite good with fluffy new snow on top of the soft snow that fell on Saturday.

Total accumulations should be 12-18 inches, with a chance for higher amounts due to abundant moisture, the long duration of the storm, and a favorable wind direction.

Temperatures on Saturday and Sunday will be in the upper teens to low 20s, and wind speeds will not be that fast, so this will be a comfortable storm, weatherwise.

Longer Range

We will likely see dry weather from Sunday afternoon through Tuesday, February 6.

Then the next storm should deliver multiple days of snow to Colorado between Wednesday, February 7, and Saturday, February 10. It still appears that snowfall from this system will favor the southern part of Colorado (which is not us), though this is still one week away and I will keep an eye on the forecast to see if anything changes.

My next update will be on Friday morning.

Thanks for reading!

JOEL GRATZ
Meteorologist at OpenSnow.com

Snow conditions as of Thursday morning

New snow mid-mountain (from the snow stake):
* 0” (24 hours Wednesday 500am to Thursday 300am)
* 0” (Overnight Wednesday 400pm to Thursday 300am)

New snow summit (from the snow stake):
* 0” (24 hours Wednesday 500am to Thursday 300am)
* 0” (Overnight Wednesday 400pm to Thursday 300am)

Last snowfall:
* 6” Sunday to Friday Night (Jan 21-27)

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

Snowpack compared to the 30-year average:
* 98%