The yin and yang of last week’s weather looms large currently. From 50 mm of rain at Castle to 80 cm of wet, base-building snow at Sunshine and Louise, it has been an interesting week. Just a note that Castle is in recovery mode having received nearly 40 cm since the rain event. Now an extended break in the action as a ridge sets up over Western Canada blocking incoming storms through next Friday.

It's snowing heavily in the central and northern Cascades of Washington with temps rising. The Rockies are scoring terrain openings, especially WY, UT, and Colorado. PMW moisture moves over Idaho and Wyoming and to some extent southern MT. Alaska is getting crushed.

A powerful storm produced deep snow totals at Banff and Lake Louise this week with moderate totals for the BC Powder Highway. The storm is now working its way through the U.S. Rockies late this week. Heavy snow fell in the Northern Rockies on Thursday and will spread into Utah and Colorado on Friday. Next week is looking dry for most areas, except for Alaska which will see heavy snow.