Not a whole lot going on over the next 10 days so this will be a fairly quick update. Cold temperatures and dry weather are dominating the pattern right now. Let's take a look!

A minor disturbance will bring light snow showers/flurries on Monday but accumulations will be light & spotty. The medium to long range outlook (next 10-14 days) continues to trend drier with high pressure ridging becoming dominant across the Western U.S. The one exception will be a light snow event this Friday (Jan 17), which will be accompanied by an arctic front with frigid temps on Sat-Sun.

After our last impressive storm cycle, which brought up to 50 inches to central Montana (Showdown), 24 inches to the Wasatch, and 10-20 inches to northern Colorado, we are stuck in a blocking ridge, perhaps through the end of January. There is one storm to watch for the weekend that pushes over interior BC and the eastern Rockies. The Ridge might buckle towards the end of the month.

A series of weaker storms will track across the Great Lakes and Northeast this week, resulting in consistent snow showers that will add up to sneaky good totals over time from Michigan to Vermont. The West will enter a dry period overall, with light snow for the Rockies expected at the end of the week as an arctic cold front moves through.

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.