Yesterday was so much fun! If you know, you know. The snow was as fluffy as can been and skied like a dream. February really has been a fantastic month for most Utah mountains with up to 162" of new snow. I will take a look at snowpack numbers tomorrow for the usual first of the month snowpack update. 

This morning we are very cold. Temps on many mountains are currently below zero: 

These should warm up today, but will remain chilly today. Additional warming over the next few days as high pressure takes control. By the end of the week it should feel somewhat spring-like, which is normal as tomorrow is the start of meteorological spring. 

As for precipitation, we should be mostly dry in Northern Utah for the entire week. The biggest chance for precip will be in southern Utah as a closed low system pulls moisture into the desert southwest later this week. Still not a ton of confidence in details, but sometime like Wednesday into Thursday, southern Utah mountains could see some accumulating snow. 

Aside from the above, we have a dry and warming week. It's been awhile since I could say that. 

The question in the extended forecast is when will we see storms/snow return? Good question. Here is the pattern later this week: 

Generally a ridge of high pressure over the central US. The feature to watch is the trough off the Pacific coast. In general, long-range models have this slowly meandering toward us. But predicting exactly when we see this progression inland is difficult. The Euro has it moving inland a bit faster, bringing at least weak chances for precip as early as March 7th. But the GFS keeps it farther off-shore for longer and doesn't really bring us any shot at precip until after the 10th. My experience is that these type of patterns take longer to shift than models think, so we may be looking a dry first 10 days of March and only then, we *might* get a better chance for storms thereafter. We shall watch and see...

Evan | OpenSnow