Mostly sunny through Saturday with high pressure in control. Clouds increase on Sunday with a weak storm moving in Sunday night into Monday. Another storm for Christmas Day with potential for continued active weather beyond.

When the weather gets active, and I mean a continual fetch of water, it makes forecasting tricky. My overall assessment on chasing powder is "Big Numbers" for the PNW and Western Canada, decent numbers for the Sierra, and Northern Rockies. Some resorts in Canada and the PNW might score 3 feet by end of next week. The end of the month offers colder and deeper solutions for the Rockies.

High pressure will lead to mild conditions over the West on Friday and Saturday, but the pattern will gradually trend cooler and more active early next week with snow chances ramping up. The East will see cold temperatures over the next 5 days with periods of light snow, followed by a warm-up after Christmas.

Thanks for reading this summer! For the rest of this week, a cold front moving across the Central Rockies will bring showers & t-storms to WY, CO, & NM Wed-Thu while the West Coast states will see a late-season heat wave. Next week, isolated to scattered showers & t-storms develop across the West with continued mild temps. Heading into mid-month, the PNW will trend wetter and cooler.