You Might Want to Stop Dreaming For a White Christmas

 TL;DR:

Today: Small amounts of snow in the evening in the upper parts of Utah such as Ogden and Logan. Otherwise, it’s pretty dry across the state.

3-Days: Nothing more for the next three days either. Rip open presents then rip up the groomers at the resorts. Try not to lose your head with the large lift lines too.

7-Days: Decent sized storm coming in for the 27th. It’ll start in the upper elevations of northern Utah and expand southeast towards Brian Head. Snow will also start to reach lower elevations as it builds. Cottonwoods and Park City Ridgelines should get decent amounts from this storm until it finally dies around the 29th.

Nowcast:

Today’s Forecast:

Wow what a fun little storm we just got for some great skiing yesterday. The biggest winners of that storm were our Little Cottonwood Resorts (Snowbird and Alta) with 13 inches. As for right now, well, we’re not completely dry today (Dec. 23rd). Very light accumulations of snow here in the state of Utah. Ogden and Logan areas in the evening should get minor amounts of snow. These totals are DEFINITELY not something to write home about but snow is snow, right? Otherwise, the rest of the state should be dry.

Short term:

3-Day Forecast:

So like the title says, you might not want to be dreaming for a white Christmas. The only precipitation we should see at all throughout the state for the next three days will be the small, evening of the 23rd, showers. To get snow any other time would be rarer than getting a hippopotamus for Christmas. My recommendation would be ripping open presents and then ripping up groomers.

Long term:

7-Day Forecast:

The first glimpse of snow that we will see will be the morning of the 27th and that storm should start producing snow in the higher elevations but you can expect some rain in the lower elevations. This storm looks like it loses some energy by the end of the day but comes back stronger on the 28th. During this time the lower elevations could expect to get more snow and the storm will expand towards southwest Utah. This means all of Utah will eventually get snow within the next 7 days. The best snow you’ll find is probably going to be in the Cottonwoods and Park City actually looks pretty decent too. This storm will continue with a pretty large presence all over the state until the 29th when it’ll fizzle out. Overall, the holidays unfortunately won’t have much snow, but you can expect a nice post Christmas storm to go out and use the new boards Santa put under the tree.

Santa rewarding himself with a job well done. ^

Backcountry comments:

Danger is Considerable in all areas except for the Moab area!

If you will be traveling in the backcountry make sure you have the proper equipment and know before you go. For the whole avalanche forecast and all things avalanche head over to our friends at the Utah Avalanche Center.