Wolf Creek Opens Tuesday, Next Storm On Time

October 21, 2024

GFS Snow thru Oct 31, All Snow Let it Go click to enlarge/animate

Region totals thru this evening

Colorado is Open Tuesday

We have good news along with good totals this morning.  Wolf Creek is going to open Tuesday!  We have been watching them work and harvesting snow, probably from the parking lots, to build the base.  They have had 21 inches reported so far with this storm and will probably add a little more from last night.

Arapahoe Basin has about 6 inches showing on their snow stake this morning, Beaver Creek 5, Vail 8, Loveland 6, Winter Park 4, Aspen 6, Purgatory 6, Steamboat 4 with heavy snow.  Heavy snow at Breck but no stake available.

Let’s talk about the next couple of storms.  Below is the long-range forecast.  We are tracking three storms that will hit in the next week and a half.

1st, the present storm exits.  2nd, a fast-moving storm that will move thru the northern Rockies.  I like this storm because it could be a good producer for Idaho, Montana and Wyoming resorts the next time it comes thru.  3rd is the Lake Tahoe, Utah and Colorado storm which is the first storm of the test predictions.

LONG-RANGE TEST FORECAST +/- 2 days tolerance

October 29th, Tahoe, Utah and Colorado

November 2 and 4th (2 Waves), Utah and Colorado

November 8-9th, Utah and Colorado

November 13th, Pacific Northwest

November 17th, Utah and Colorado

November 22nd, Utah and Colorado

December 3rd, Utah and Colorado

These storms look like a solid part of the pattern that will come back thru in December.  It is too early to tell if this is an active part of the pattern, or what.  The storm track has been so far north we will need to wait and see what happens in the next 4 weeks to determine what the rest of the pattern will look like.  Hopefully, we don’t see a prolonged dry stretch that we saw in September and early October.

Hope you can make it to Wolf tomorrow!

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