A few light snow showers for round 2 (7)

Plan on a few snow showers at times through early Monday morning over parts of Utah with most snow falling over the Uinta mountains. Click on the below map for WRF model forecasted snow between 5am Friday and 5am Monday.

Down slope/canyon winds

Plan on general down slope/canyon winds in the 20-30 g/40 mph (local 40 g/60 mph winds) range to continue overnight into the morning hours on Thursday before they start to decrease some. Click on the attached file for forecasted winds at 2am on Friday.

Two part storm (6)

The first of a two part storm is expected to move into the state on Wednesday with most snow ending by sunrise on Thanksgiving, second part of the storm moves in over the weekend with more snow. Plan on a general 3-6" (local 7-9") for most northern Utah mountains above 7,000 ft with 1-4" for the central and southern Utah mountains. Look for local valley areas (mainly south/west desert and northern Wasatch/Logan) to see a trace-2" of snow. For more details click on the below map for the WRF model forecasted snow between 5pm Tuesday and 5pm Thursday.

Current Utah Snow Cover

December Outlook

Plan on near normal temperatures for all of Utah with near normal precipitation for most areas, above normal for the southeast corner of the state, below normal for the northern Wasatch Front.

More snow, wind. (5)

Look for snow to develop over mainly the central and northern Wasatch mountains on Thursday afternoon and continue into early Friday morning.  Plan on a general 3-6" snow for areas above 7,000 ft, 7-16" in the Logan area mountains. Click on the below image for WRF model forecasted snow for this storm.

Going south again! (4)

Another storm headed for mainly central/southern Utah with 8-16" snow expected for the Wasatch Plateau.  Click on the below image for the WRF-GFS model forecasted snow for this storm.

Smallish storm (3)

Plan on mainly lower valley rain and mountain snow to move through Utah from northwest to southeast starting on Monday afternoon in northern Utah, most rain /snow showers pushing out of southeastern Utah by Tuesday evening. Most areas look mainly dry by the second half of Tuesday night except south of the Great Salt Lake where lake effect snow showers are expected to kick in ending by mid morning on Wednesday. In general look for 2-6" for most Utah mountain areas (7-11" Oquirrh Mtns)  above 7,000 ft with this storm, local 1-3" valley snow from lake effect in the Tooele Valley and western Salt Lake Valley. Click on the below image for the WRF model forecasted snow for this storm.

Weakening storm for Utah (2)

A weakening storm is expected to move into Utah on Tuesday with valley rain and mountain snow showers, most rain/snow showers ending on Thursday morning. Temperatures do get cold enough for the rain to change to snow in the valleys along the Wasatch Front by Wednesday. Plan on a general 1-3" (local 4-8") of snow for most Utah mountains above 7,000 ft. Click on the below picture for the WRF model forecasted snow between 5pm Monday and 5pm Thursday.

October 2015 Climatic Summary

Click on the below link
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/slc/climate/CLM/October2015_Climatic_Summary.pdf