Grasshopper’s Weekly North American Forecast
Source: windy.com
Mountainwatch | The Grasshopper
North American Forecast – Plenty of powder falling into the weekend
Thursday 12thDecember (Pacific Time)
Howdy partners. We’re at it again – the first forecast of the season after North American resorts have come bucking out of the gates.
We’re coming at you every Thursday with all the highlights and snowlights for the coming week. We’ll cover all your meteorological needs so that you can chase the powder across the North American Cordillera, or simply know when it’ll snow in your neck of the woods.
Thursday-Saturday
A deep low churning in the Gulf of Alaska is currently pushing moisture laden air off the Pacific and over the upper two thirds of the North American Cordillera, dropping consistent light to moderate snowfalls over the Coast Mountains, the Cascades, and the Rockies as far south as Aspen.
Friday morning, those snowfalls will spread south throughout the whole of Colorado, as well as down to the Sierras where we should see some heavier falls. Those snowfalls farther north will ease to mere flurries as the low in the Gulf disappears over Alaska.
On Saturday, scattered snow flurries and showers throughout much of the Cordillera will either clear or become few and far between, before resorts in northern Arizona and New Mexico get in on the action with a nice top up late in the day into Sunday.
Sunday-Wednesday
On Sunday, another low enters the Gulf of Alaska and light snowfalls will scatter themselves over the Coast Mountains, and throughout the Rockies down to Colorado, while the Cascades see some heavier falls, although it’ll be wet and slushy at low levels.
Remaining light flurries will clear Tuesday before another surge off the Pacific sends more light to moderate snowfall towards Canadian resorts and Cascades during Wednesday.
