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By Evan Thayer, Forecaster Posted 3 years ago February 23, 2021

Light Refreshers

Summary

We have a very weak impulse today bringing some clouds and slight chances for snow showers to far northern Utah. A slightly stronger wave tomorrow could put down an inch or two. Then, another slightly stronger one for the weekend with modest amounts possible in Northern Utah.

Short Term Forecast

Northern Utah will be the focus over the next 5 days as we have a few waves that will bring chances for generally light snowfall. The first is this morning and is very weak. It's mostly just clouds, but we are seeing a few light snow showers up near the Idaho border. Light snow is currently falling at Beaver Mountain:

Farther south, we could see a few snowflakes this morning, but mostly just some clouds before clearing later today. 

Tomorrow, we see a slightly stronger wave move into Northern Utah. Still, "stronger" definitely doesn't mean strong. It's a weak system and I expect only to see maybe 1-3" of new snow from it. Here are totals for Wednesday per the NDFD: 

Meager amounts of liquid will yield meager amounts of snow. They main impact will be cooler temperatures returning.

A break on Thursday before we see the next wave move in on Friday along with additional cold temperatures. A weak wave on Friday will be reinforced by a stronger system on Saturday. Totals do not look big, but some models have at least halfway respectable amounts. For example, here is the latest German ICON model: 

Not huge, but 4-8" is possible this weekend in Northern Utah mountains if current trends hold. 

Extended Forecast

After Saturday, it looks like we are generally going to enter a break in the action. High pressure is progged to build over the interior US while low pressure trough develops off the west coast. This should give us a mostly dry period for the first 5+ days of March, along with warmer temps. Long-range models do show the trough eventually pushing inland which could bring us a return to more active weather during the second week of the month. We will continue to monitor. 

Evan | OpenSnow

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