Forecast for the Western U.S. over the next Week
To start, a powerful series of storms will pound the Pacific Northwest and coastal ranges in Canada with rounds of heavy snow through Monday. Snowfall here will be measured in feet. Further inland across the interior northwest, periods of snow will also add up with up to two feet possible in some interior regions along the U.S/Canadian border. Further south, in the central Rockies there will be periods of snow showers with some accumulation over the next 72 hours but drastically less than what their neighbors to the northwest experience. Temperatures warm up and the atmosphere dries out for Tuesday and Wednesday in the southern and central west but light snowfall continues each day across the northern mountains. Lake in the week, the cold air building in Canada pushes south and an area of low pressure forms in the Great Basin as a result of this thermal gradient, and I’d watch for a decent sized storm to affect Utah and Colorado right in time for the weekend.
Forecast for the Eastern U.S. over the next Week
Skiers and riders in the east, especially interior sections of the northeast from west-central NY up through the northern tier of New England, should keep an eye on Monday’s storm system that will ride up the cold front left behind this current rainy system. This could lead to a quick, heavy wet snowfall across the northern and western Adirondacks, northern Green Mountains, and northern tier of the U.S/Canadian border up through Maine. The potential exists for 4-6” of paste-like snow across the higher elevations of this region. Not much cold air will be in place but the higher elevations should be able to cool themselves off enough for snowfall on Monday. I will have more on that in the next day or two. On Tuesday we are seasonably cold with flurries and snow showers, especially downwind of the Great Lakes. Wednesday will feature a clipper system that could bring light accumulating snows to all mountainous areas, even down into the central Appalachians. Thursday sees a high pressure build in with nice weather before another system approaches from the west and effects us over the weekend. This one looks to have mixed precipitation at this point in time with mainly snow across the far north, snow/ice/rain across central New England and central NY, and rain across the south.
