Summary

We start to clear out and warm up today with temperatures in the 40's. Winds increasing through the day with gusts to 50+ mph on the mountain tops by afternoon. For the weekend high pressure continues to build in. We will see sunny skies and high temperatures into the 40's on the upper mountains, and 50's down low and at lake level. Wind gusts to 40+ mph may continue on Friday on the mountain top, but should start to relax over the weekend. Next week we begin a pattern change towards wetter and eventually cold weather. We could see the first storm move in Tuesday. The latest model runs show light precipitation through Tuesday night. We may just see light high elevation snow. The next stronger storm may move in next Thursday into Friday. It may start wet with high snow levels and then colder air may work in Thursday night into Friday with snow for all elevations. We could see a break the weekend of the 20th, and then storms continuing the week of the 22nd.

Short Term Forecast