It's official. This is the deepest snowpack Utah has ever seen, at least since the widespread adoption of snotel instrumentation (1980). NRCS tweeted this out yesterday:

They went on to explain that 1952 was likely slightly larger but they only have manual observations from a few select locations and we are quickly approaching even their estimated number for that year as well. 

It snowed a lot yesterday with some truly incredible snowfall rates at times. Totals were typically in the 10-20" range, but LCC topped the list with over two feed of snow in 24 hours with 19" of that falling during the ski day yesterday. Snow stakes are preditably buried:

For those of you keeping score at home, that's now 165" of snow at Alta-Collins in the month of March and 748" on the season. Remember when we passed 700" for the first time 3 days ago? Ha! 

Snow showers will continue today but will be widely scattered for the most part and focus mostly on terrain favored in WNW flow and perhaps a bit of enhancement downwind of GSL. Accumulations should mostly be in the 1-4" range today. 

Another weak disturbance is going to move through for Sunday that will fire up snow showers again but, again, accumulations should be relatively light with a few inches possible. The main story through Monday is the very cold weather that is near record cold for this late in March. Bundle up if you're going up! 

Our next system of note will come after a break in the action on Tuesday. We will see moderating temperatures and then on Wednesday we could see showers develop with snow levels rising to near 7000 ft. The GFS brings this storm in faster with valley rain and mountain snow Wednesday into Thursday. The Euro is a bit slower with precip developing late Wednesday night into Thursday and even early Friday. Both models see an initial warmer SW flow followed by a cooler NW flow behind the storm with some decent precip totals possible. Here is the GFS:

Here is the Euro:

Both would result in an at least moderate storm for Northern Utah mountains. We should then have a break again for the start of next weekend before another storm is possible late weekend into early next week (April 2-3). Models are pretty consistent on this storm dropping in out of the northwest. 

Fantasy range generally continues to keep the threat of storms going so it will be interesting to see just how far we can push these records. I'm starting to root for an end to the storm to be honest and a warm-up of temperatures so we can begin the long process of melting off the snowpack. 

Evan | OpenSnow