Utah Daily Snow

For those wondering, I posted my final post of the season and the full season recap on the Utah Daily Snow today on OpenSnow. It was an interesting season to say the least. We all got through it together! Let's just hope next year is a return to normalcy. opensnow.com/dailysnow/utah…

This was officially the least snowy season (Oct-Apr) since 1980 at Alta-Collins, with 321". The previous record low was 323.5" in 2014-15. However, there were THIRTEEN seasons in that period with less total water. A wild stat illustrating just how dense the snow was this season.

I believe the worst season at Alta-Collins since 1980 was 2014-15, when 323.5" of snow fell from Oct-Apr. Right now we sit on 320." We need 4" of snow to avoid that infamous designation. Of course, we are already well clear of "worst season ever" in terms of total water.

There even some higher amounts (water-wise) in SW flow favored areas such as Sundance and Brighton and even upper DV.

First wave of this two-part storm is over. Alta-Collins picked up 14” of ❄️ from 1.4” of 💧. As good as we could have hoped for! The next wave arrives tomorrow morning with more snow and slightly cooler temps/lower snow levels.

@ozskier @johnsonjoe @AltaSkiArea

@johnsonjoe @AltaSkiArea Joe’s Alta Java tab:

Didn’t feel like closing day up there today. But maybe that was the perfect way for this winter to end? I skied some pow, ordered my last Susie’s of the season and paid off my Alta Java tab.

Another SW flow-favored locale is Brighton. Brighton Crest station showed 11” of new snow as of 3PM. How’d it ride?

Good call, Ryan. Sundance mid-mountain with 1.17” of water already at 2pm.

@johnsonjoe @AltaSkiArea I’ve been really bummed to miss it today. How was it up there?

Alta-Collins telemetry station has picked up 3-4" of snow from 0.41" of water so far. Snow showers all day! Should be a fun storm day. Who's going up?

So yeah, Sunday and Monday could be quite snowy up high. A lot of precip with decently cold (for late April) air.

Getting 2.5x more snow in 3 weeks than in an entire season is mindboggling.

We are working to further dial in modeling, so I'm looking at some outlier storms of the past. In doing so, I noticed the following stat for Sundance. Total snowfall 2025-26 season: 70" Total snowfall Dec 27, 2022-Jan 18, 2023: 175" Wow!

Hard to say if this will actually happen, but the 12z ECMWF wants to bring a significant precip producer to Northern Utah from Sunday through Wednesday. We could see decent mountain snowfall totals. Something to watch...

Timelapse yesterday at Beaver Mountain shows significant snow. They picked up even more overnight and this morning!

The central Wasatch hasn't seen all that much snow from this storm, but the far northern Wasatch and Bear River Range have been nailed. Tony Grove Lake has picked up 2.3" of water and has seen snow depth increase by 20 inches!

The farther north, the better the chances for accumulating mountain snow Wednesday-Thursday. Thursday has the potential to be fun.

@mjasay Thanks for the report!

@WasatchSnow It was good but, as you said in your update, the snow was so low-density that on all but the lowest-angle terrain you'd be hitting the bottom crust. Still decent skiing and better than not skiing, but 7-8" ain't what it used to be!

Up to 7-8” of new snow reported in LCC this morning and the mid-mountain temp is 8°F. Should feel like winter again, if only briefly. Have fun!

@Jaromsaidchange Yeah, sometimes funky things happen with their automated counter, they may manually adjust it down later today.

@WasatchSnow Little weird that it was showing 293 on the season before this 7 inch storm.

At Alta-Collins, we still need about 20" of snow this month to avoid the distinction of "least snowy winter ever" in terms of inches of snow. As for water content, we are well ahead of several seasons in that department, so it's definitely not the "driest season ever."

Preliminarily, this storm brought CLN over 300" of snow for the season (304"). The 2014-15 total was 323.5". Active weather late next week will give us a shot to get there, but it is perhaps a long shot.