Thursday Night

Following sunny and warm weather on Thursday, a fast-moving storm delivered just a few snowflakes on Thursday night, and I caught these flakes on one of the mountain cams:-)

Friday & Saturday

Friday will be partly sunny and warm with a high temperature in the 30s.

Saturday will likely be cloudier with a high temperature in the 30s, a shower at any time during the day, and gusty winds at the summit.

Saturday Night through early April

Starting on Saturday night, the weather pattern will flip back to winter, and most of the final eight days of March will have high temperatures in the 20s with chances for snow.

The first storm should bring snow from Saturday night to Tuesday night, with the softest conditions maybe on Sunday during the day and on Monday morning. Some models show that Telluride could see 10+ inches of snow from later Sunday into early Monday due to a favorable wind from the northwest, so we'll watch for powder potential on Sunday and/or Monday.

The second storm should bring snow from later Thursday into Friday morning, with potential powder early on Friday.

And the third storm should bring more snow around Sunday, March 31 to Monday, April 1.

Total snowfall from Saturday night through the end of March should be 1-2+ feet, and we'll watch for powder on Sunday and Monday as well as soft conditions extending to later in the week.

My next update will be Saturday morning.

Thanks for reading!

JOEL GRATZ
Meteorologist at OpenSnow.com

Snow conditions as of Friday morning

New snow mid-mountain:
* 0” (24 hours Thursday 500am to Friday 500am)
* 0” (Overnight Thursday 500pm to Friday 500am)

New snow upper-mountain:
* 0” (24 hours Thursday 500am to Friday 500am)
* 0” (Overnight Thursday 500pm to Friday 500am)

Last snowfall:
* 23” Tuesday Night to Saturday Night (Mar 12-17)

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

Snowpack compared to the 30-year average:
* 90%