On Tuesday, skies were mostly cloudy, we saw a few snow showers early and late in the day, and the temperature topped out in the upper 20s to low 30s.

Now on Wednesday morning, the mid-mountain snow stake shows no new snow, but a storm tracking just to the south of Colorado should drop some new snow on the snow stake during the next 24 hours.

For snowfall on Wednesday and Thursday, my best estimate is that we'll pick up between 2-6 inches from Wednesday afternoon through Thursday mid-morning. The highest chance for the steadiest and most intense snow should be from Wednesday evening through Thursday morning, so Thursday morning may be a powder day. Also, please keep in mind that this forecast has high uncertainty - if we happen to miss the most intense snowfall, accumulations could be just a coating to an inch or two, and if we happen to see a few waves of intense snowfall, we might wind up in the 5-10 inch range. Let's hope that this storm delivers a lot of flakes and that there is some powder on Thursday morning. The temperature on Thursday will be reasonably comfortable with readings in the low-to-mid 20s.

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:
* 0” (24 hours Tuesday 500am to Wednesday 500am)
* 0” (Overnight Tuesday 400pm to Wednesday 500am)

New snow upper-mountain:
* 0” (24 hours Tuesday 500am to Wednesday 500am)
* 0” (Overnight Tuesday 400pm to Wednesday 500am)

Last snowfall:
* 2” Friday (Dec 8)

Terrain
* 1 of 17 lifts
* 16 of 147 trails
* Latest update

Snowpack compared to the 30-year average:
* 69%