Woohoo! This has been a classic Utah snowstorm and the perfect way to finish up an excellent storm cycle. Twenty-four hour totals in the area include 22-24" in the Cottonwood Canyons, 15-18" in PC resorts. 15" at PowMow. 12" at Beaver. 9" at Snowbasin. 15" at Eagle Point. 11" at both Nordic Valley and Sundance. Liquid amounts have been very good and beneficial as well, with Alta-Collins showing nearly 2" of liquid since noon yesterday! 

Here is the snow piling up yesterday and last night at Deer Valley:

And here is the snow stake at Alta getting completely buried...

It's going to be a great powder day! It will be very cold, so bundle up and of course, holiday traffic and snowy roads... I would expect there to be a lot of difficulties getting to resorts today, especially in the Cottonwood Canyons. 

Snow showers will continue this morning but generally be on the lighter side. NW flow is developing and that should keep snow going in LCC at the very least through the day and into this afternoon. We could even see some lake enhancement this evening and overnight tonight. I would not be shocked to see another 6-12" in LCC by Saturday morning. 

I'm going to fully sum up the entire storm cycle over the past 9 days in tomorrow's post. For now, however, let's just get out and enjoy the snow! 

Clear and cold this weekend with gradual warming early next week. Models continue to show our next chance for snow arriving in Northern Utah late on Tuesday (Jan 4) into Wednesday and Thursday. Still waiting on better agreement and details on this, but it should be a mainly northern Utah event. Possibility for another system of some kind next weekend as well. High pressure does look like it will eventually shut the storm door for awhile for the middle portion of January. 

Evan | OpenSnow