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Weather: Yesterday's high temperatures were generally in the upper 30s and low 40s F which were five to ten degrees warmer than the day before. Temperatures this morning are mostly in the mid and upper 30s F. Temperatures above about 8500 ft dropped below freezing.

Southwest winds increased overnight and are blowing 10-20 mph gusting 30-40 mph. Today should warm about as much as yesterday but partly cloudy skies should keep it from feeling too hot. High temperatures should reach the low 40s F again and the southwest winds will continue. Accumulating snow should arrive late tonight and deposit 1-3 inches by tomorrow morning when a cold front crosses overhead. Snowfall will continue Sunday through Monday morning with snow totals of maybe a foot.

Snow: With above freezing air temperatures, the snowpack may not be refrozen unless skies were just clear enough overnight to allow it to lose heat to the sky and refreeze on open slopes. Upper elevation slopes above 8500 feet should be refrozen. This limited refreeze means that it won't take much warming today for the snow to turn wet. Upper elevation slopes facing due north and untouched by winds in the last week have some dry recyrstallized snow. Some slopes scoured by winds have a very hard ice crust that formed February 7th. A regular observer in one location found dry powder in a hidden and protected area between 6500 and 7500 feet (photo below - B. Smith).

Looking across the state, the snowpack is generally near or slightly above normal for snow water equivalent. For the full map of basins across the western U.S. go HERE. To see a map of how individual sites compare to normal, go HERE.