Another Last Day of Winter

Steenburgh winter never happened this year.  Meteorological winter ended on March 1st.  Astronomical winter ended on March 20th.  

However, today might have been the last day of winter at ski resorts in upper Little Cottonwood.  At least that's what we called it at Snowbird this morning where the life expectancy of chalky groomers is now no longer than a day.  For groomer, Regulator Johnson was really outstanding this morning.  

Temperatures today are climbing and they will continue to do so, with the usual nighttime interruption, through the weekend.  We will se snow again in the future, but the transformation this week is going to be dramatic.  Check out the National Weather Service Forecast for the Salt Lake City International Airport.  81˚F on Saturday!  81˚F!  

Source: NWS.  Downloaded 1:10PM 23 March 2022

That's insane.  The earliest 80 on record was recorded on March 31, and that was in 2012.  

We'll see what we hit on Saturday, but things will be changing and changing fast.  Don't forget to sunblock.