The current snowpack map shows that western Canada continues to lead the pack with a couple feet of snow on the ground. The arrows show the location of resorts that I'll talk about further into this post.

During the last few days, southern Colorado and northern New Mexico finally received some snow after many weeks of dry weather.

In northern New Mexico, a few inches of snow accumulated above 10,000 feet, though we still need more to catch up to average.

As I mentioned, western Canada continues to lead the pack when we look at snow depth compared to average.

During the next 5 days, the heaviest snow will fall over British Columbia and Alberta, Canada, and the northeast may also see a few flakes on Friday into Saturday.

Temperatures during the upcoming week will be warmer than average across virtually all of the United States and Canada.

These warm temperatures are not what we want to see heading into mid November, but changes are coming… 

Starting around November 11-12, the northeast should begin to see surges of cooler air, so snowmaking should be able to crank up and there might be some natural snow accumulation as well.

In the western US, the warm and dry pattern that has been locked in since the beginning of November should break during the final 10 days of the month.

Starting around November 19-20, most long-range models show that a few colder snowstorms could finally make the Rockies, Cascades, and Sierras look like mid winter. This pattern change is still about 10-15 days away, so it’s far from a guarantee … but the odds are in our favor.

Thanks for reading!

JOEL GRATZ