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Back in the Snow with a few More to Go

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Jan 18, 2025

National Weather Service total snowfall thru Sunday morning

Forecast

Expect another 2-4 for Utah and Colorado resorts this morning before this round moved out, perhaps a little more for the southern resorts Telluride and maybe as far east as Powderhorn.  There seems to be a force field around Wolf–sorry fellas.  

This system moves out and tonight will hit the deep freeze with sub-zero temps as low as -15, so Sunday will be frigid with windchills in the -10 to -20 with the next round moving in around mid to late morning.  This will be a light refresh with high snow ratios around 20-1.  Expect another 3-6 for Colorado and maybe 2-4 for Utah resorts.

Next Storm

The next storm hits the PNW Saturday January 25th and will take a southeast track arriving in Utah and Colorado Sunday.

From Wednesday

A look at the Long-range from the European Ensemble model

I’ve diagramed the first chart so you can get a sense of what to look for on the following charts.  

 

 

LRC Model from Weather 2020

Taking a look at one of the early runs from the LRC model, you can see a few storms that stick out as possible 12+ powder days.  Feb 17, 23, 31/April 1-2.

We’ll keep an eye on these storms and see how the model run performs.  Other notables, you can look at the chart of counties with ski resorts and the projected liquid water equivalent (top chart) and snowfall for the month of February.  We are still tweaking the model to get the proper output–so take this with a grain of salt.

One of our long-range goals is to find a way to predict large storms, in our “endless search for powder”.  Each year we get better at reading the teleconnections in an attempt to solve their cycle lengths. The LRC model is one of these tools, still in its infancy, that helps with the other influences.

GFS 500 mb, GFS 24/hr All Snow, Euro and GFS Ensemble Total Snow

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Thank you for reading the blog and as always if you have any questions, please email me at Mike@FutureSnow.co

 

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