That northwest flow yesterday delivered as I hoped. Funnily, you'd typically expect LCC to do the best in that flow -- and they did fine with 8" of new snow -- but it was areas in upper BCC and PC area that did the best. 11" reported at both Brighton and Park City. 7" at Deer Valley and 8" at Solitude. I got reports of extremely good conditions on the Wasatch Back yesterday! 

Elsewhere, a general 4-8" fell yesterday. 

Alta-Collins picked up 8" of snow from 0.66" of liquid since yesterday morning. Their season snowfall total is now at 548" which is over their 1980-2023 average of 546". So we are officially above average in terms of inches of snow! (You may remember we surpassed average liquid a couple of weeks ago)

Wednesday:

We have a break today with a good chances for periods of sun. Winds might start to pick up later in the day thanks to the storm that we have moving in tomorrow.

Thursday-Friday:

Our next storm is dropping a front into the region out of the northwest. The "core" of this storm is somewhat farther west than normal, so we are sort of being draped by an "arm" of the storm. This is going to cause the frontal boundary to stall and pivot. This may happen somewhere in central Utah and could limit the totals in the Wasatch a bit. Again, some models show this more than others. 

The NBM blend shows decent precip by late Friday across the northern half of Utah:

0.5-1.25" of liquid in the mountains could yield 6-12+" of snow. 

Temperatures are going to warm a bit ahead of the storm so on Thursday we may see some denser snow falling during the day. We will cool down Thursday evening and night with lower densities falling. 

As for powder days, Friday is the obvious choice. However, snow may fall enough during the day tomorrow for Thursday afternoon to have some soft snow as well. 

Saturday-Monday:

The next system drops down the west coast and settles off the coast of California. This is going to lead to an extended period of moist SW flow into Utah. It looks like there is an initial wave on Saturday that will bring snow to the high elevations. 

Then, likely a secondary wave on Sunday as the parent low starts to move eastward into the desert SW. This will bring more snow Sunday, perhaps lingering into Monday. 

You can see the individual peaks in our OpenSnow model blend:

Overall, this shows upper LCC seeing 2" of liquid through the end of the weekend. I think that is underdone a bit. I think we are likely to see an inch or more with the Thur/Fri storm, then another 1-2" over the weekend. As for snow, most locations likely to see another 6-12" Saturday-Monday. Cottonwoods could go higher again. 

It's a snowy end to March and will help to boost our statewide snowpack even further above normal. 

We should clear out by Tuesday of next week and have at least a day or two of calmer weather. Models hinting at a storm returning as early as April 4 or 5 (Thur/Fri of next week). Too early for details but, at this point, it looks like a quick-hitter in a northwesterly flow pattern. We will watch.

Evan | OpenSnow