Incoming powder! Major snowfall headed for Colorado ski resorts Tuesday through Saturday

It’s looking similar the tempest heading toward the precocious state that skiers person been eyeing hopefully is going to wage disconnected with important snowfall, particularly successful Colorado’s bluish mountains.

Anticipated to statesman Tuesday night, the tempest should beryllium “a prolonged event,” according to Joel Gratz, founding meteorologist of the OpenSnow forecasting and tracking service. Steamboat looks similar it volition beryllium the large victor arsenic Gratz is predicting 20 inches to autumn done Saturday with different 9 inches coming adjacent week. Steamboat is scheduled to open Nov. 20.

Other projections connected OpenSnow telephone for Beaver Creek to person 12 inches done Saturday with 11 predicted for Vail and 10 for Winter Park. Vail opens Friday and Winter Park volition unfastened Nov. 17. Breckenridge, which opens Friday, tin expect 7 inches done Saturday.

Three Front Range skis areas are already open. Loveland and Arapahoe Basin are expected to person 9 inches done Saturday portion Keystone tin expect 6 inches.

Most of the mountains mentioned present tin expect different 5 to 7 inches of snowfall adjacent week. By the extremity of adjacent week, 10 Colorado skis resorts are scheduled to beryllium open. Nine much are scheduled to unfastened the pursuing week, including Copper Mountain and Beaver Creek.

“Inbounds terrain is constricted to a fewer runs astatine a fewer mountains close now, though this should grow somewhat owed to the caller snowfall and temperatures successful the teens and 20s from Wednesday done Saturday which should assistance snowmaking,” Gratz wrote. “And if the backcountry is your thing, delight retrieve to cheque the avalanche forecast earlier heading out. It’s the close wont to have, adjacent if it feels similar early-season conditions are harmless and you cognize your zone.”

Indeed. Gratz expects Cameron Pass — a fashionable backcountry country located astir 65 miles westbound of Fort Collins — to person 16 inches of snowfall done Saturday and different 11 inches adjacent week. Berthoud Pass could person 11 inches done Saturday and different 7 adjacent week.

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