Different Storm Pathways

What will certainly be the last storm of November and possibly the last storm for some time is now in the books.  

As a recap, I thought we would do a comparison of the total storm depth change at Deer Valley Ontario (9100 feet) and Alta-Collins (9662 feet) as they illustrate two different pathways for increasing the total snow depth about 15 inches.  I've take the liberty of stretching the Alta-Collins plot from MesoWest so that the y-axis scale increments are comparable in scale to those at Deer Valley Ontario.

Most of the snow at Deer Valley Ontario fell from about 0000–1400 MST Thursday (red shading).  This was during the pre-frontal storm stage discussed in the prior post (see Can You Help Explain the Overnight Snows).  

The Deer Valley Ski Patrol was caught mocking the Alta Ski Patrol on their snow-stake web cam.

Of course, Alta is Mother Nature's favorite son, and with and following the passage of the front late yesterday afternoon and last night (blue shading), she decided to give Little Cottonwood the goods.  

Two different pathways to 15ish inches.  In the end, everyone is happy.