Thursday

Thursday was mixed with some clouds, some showers, and just a little bit of snow accumulation. The high temperature was in the upper 20s to low 30s.

Thursday Night

The first part of the storm came in on the high side, with 4-5 inches of new snow across the mountain as of Friday morning at 6 am.

Friday

We'll see showery/banded snow continue all day with times of potentially intense snow and maybe some breaks in the snow. The most likely amount of new snow is 2-4 inches, but we could be below or above this range due to the hit-or-miss nature of the snow.

Friday Night to Sunday Morning

From Friday midnight through Sunday morning, snowfall should become steadier due to abundant moisture, cooling temperatures, and a favorable wind direction from the west-northwest and northwest. 

Conditions on Saturday morning will be soft and powdery, conditions should get deeper throughout the day on Saturday, and then snow will continue to fall on Saturday night, so Sunday morning will again offer wonderful/deep/soft conditions.

My snowfall estimate from Friday night to Sunday morning is for another 9-14 inches and some forecast models are showing somewhat higher totals which makes sense due to the abundant moisture and favorable wind direction, so let's hope for the best.

Temperatures during the storm will be in the teens to low 20s, so weather conditions should be reasonably comfortable.

Sunday Afternoon to Monday

We will have a short period of dry weather from Sunday afternoon to Monday evening, and conditions could be sunny/clear with temperatures in the teens on Sunday and in the 20s on Monday.

Tuesday, February 6 to Saturday, February 10

The weather pattern is going to be active next week and most of the snow may target Colorado's southern mountains (that's us!), so there is a good chance that we'll see more soft snow and powder days later next week. We'll figure out the details in the next few days.

My next update will be on early Saturday morning.

Thanks for reading!

JOEL GRATZ
Meteorologist at OpenSnow.com

Snow conditions as of Friday morning

New snow mid-mountain:
* 4” (24 hours Thursday 500am to Friday 500am)
* 4” (Overnight Thursday 400pm to Friday 500am)

New snow upper-mountain:
* 4” (24 hours Thursday 500am to Friday 500am)
* 4” (Overnight Thursday 400pm to Friday 500am)

Last snowfall:
* 4” Thursday Night (Feb 1-2)

Terrain
* 17 of 17 lifts
* 129 of 147 trails
* Latest update

Snowpack compared to the 30-year average:
* 74%