Nowcast -With mostly cloudy skies overhead, Mother Nature takes a deep breath and reflects... "well that was a pretty impressive show of strength huh?" Indeed it was and I'm still crunching the snow and water numbers, but it looks like and evenly distributed 24" of snow with 2.5" SWE. However, the over-achiever that it is, Trial Lake, tips the scales with an absolutely stunning 36" of snow and 3.1" SWE. A few lingering snow showers drift into the region as cold air spills into northern Utah and the mercury starts its day hovering right around 0 °F . Winds blow 10-20 mph from the west and northwest near the ridges, with a few gusts to 30 mph across the high peaks, delivering finger-numbing windchill into the -25 °F range.

Forecast - Look for mostly cloudy skies and a few scattered snow showers. It's gonna be cold with high temperatures barely clawing out of the deep freeze and into the low teens °F. Winds blow in the 20 mph range, shift to the southwest and even southeast around suppertime, as a storm system slides into central and south Utah.

Futurecast - Storminess to the south delivers a couple inches of snow overnight into Friday morning, but this is hardly a big snow producer. High pressure returns for the weekend with sunny skies and much warmer temperatures.

Travel Conditions - After six weeks with no significant snowfall, finally, the Uinta's got absolutely clobbered and the recent storm is nothing short of colossal. Lower elevations are coming on, but it's still low tide, so definitely tread lightly.

Avalanche educator extraordinaire, Michael Davis, was out field-truthing yesterday's conditions near Soapstone and it appears reported storm snow totals confirm suspicions. Yup... it's over-the-hood and over-the head!