Snow for the Rockies, the Northeast, & the West

US and Canada Daily Snow

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By Joel Gratz, Founding Meteorologist Posted 4 years ago February 24, 2020

Summary

We’ll be on a roller-coaster through the end of February and into early March. The next few days will bring snow to the Northwest and the Rockies, the Northeast will see a storm during the end of the week, then the stormy pattern will swing back to the west early next week.

Short Term Forecast

Five-Day Snow Totals

The clear winner during the past five days (Wed, Feb 19 – Sun, Feb 23) was coastal Alaska with about 20-60 inches of snow accumulating from Eaglecrest to Alyeska. The Southwest and parts of Colorado also saw 10-20 inches over the weekend, though some of the Colorado snow totals fell on Sunday and will not show up until the Monday morning reports (after this forecast is published).

Forecast for Mon, Feb 24 – Tue, Feb 25

A cold system will move through the Northwest and the Northern Rockies on Monday and Tuesday. There will be powder and chilly temperatures in Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado.

Forecast for Wed, Feb 26 – Fri, Feb 28

During the second half of the week, we’ll look for the biggest snows in the corners, with one storm hitting northern New England and another series of storms over coastal Alaska and coastal British Columbia. We also might see light snow continue along the spine of the Rockies (Montana, Wyoming, Colorado) though snow totals here should be light.

Forecast for Sat, Feb 29 – Sun, Mar 1

After a few days of drier weather around most of the western United States, we’ll start March with a new system making landfall from the Pacific Ocean. Chances for deep snow are pretty high for coastal British Columbia. Farther south in the lower 48 states, while snow does show up on the map below, my confidence in the track of the storm is very low, so we’ll need to refine the forecast during the next few days.

Extended Forecast

Outlook for Mon, Mar 2 – Fri, Mar 6

Most models show that we’ll start March with a stormy pattern across the west. It is premature to say which mountains will see the most snow because storms could dive to the south, or take a far northern track, or some combination of the two, and we just don’t know the details yet. But at least the map below shows generally good news for the first week of March.