It's been a while since I did a post, but I've been busy working on the 2nd Edition of Secrets of the Greatest Snow on Earth. It's coming along nicely and I'm hoping to get it to my publisher by the end of May.
I have good news and bad news on the forecast front. The bad news is we just had a frontal passage in the Salt Lake Valley and it has come loaded with dust.
Watch the Wasatch Range slowly disappear as post-frontal dust moves into the Salt Lake Valley this morning.
— Jim Steenburgh (@ProfessorPowder) April 19, 2022
Not good for lungs or snowpack. pic.twitter.com/L7jBCpSzSy
The moisture lags the surface front by a good ways and is pretty scant at that. We'll see a few valley showers and mountain snow showers later this afternoon or evening, but the latter won't add up to much.
The good news, however, is that the system coming in late Thursday night/early Friday morning and affecting us through Saturday looks more potent. Below is the downscaled NAEFS plume showing some healthy totals with a mean of between 20 and 30 inches.
Don't bet the house yet. The GFS is a bit more subdued (and it tends to be wet), with just over an inch of water and about 16 inches of snow. Regardless, keep your fingers cross for another April dumpage, just in time for the weekend.
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