The official snow report shows that 7 inches fell between Sunday at midnight and Monday at 5am at mid-mountain.

What the snow report will not tell you, but you can see from the time-lapse webcams, is that intense snowfall has continued between Monday 5am to 8am at least another few inches has fallen. That means that you’ll find at least 8-10 inches of fresh pow when you get to first chair, and we’ll likely see another 1-3 inches between 8am and late morning when the snow begins to taper off. Get out and enjoy the deepness!

We should see the intense morning snow taper off to lighter snow by late morning or noon on Monday, and then expect breaks of sun mixed with snow showers for the rest of Monday.

Looking ahead to the rest of the week and weekend, I think we’ll stay dry for most of the time, but I cannot rule out a storm to our north dropping south into Colorado and potentially bringing light snow to Steamboat on Wednesday night and again on Saturday night.

Thanks for reading and stay tuned for daily morning updates!

JOEL GRATZ, Meteorologist at OpenSnow.com