Weissbluth said the short-term models in particular have been frustrating and often have significantly disagreed with longer-term predictions. Bealo said Northwest Colorado has been in a somewhat blocky pattern lately, where areas of low and high pressure tend to sit, making it difficult for weather models to predict what will happen. The storm that will start rolling through Tuesday will come from that Pacific system. “We’re kind of in between these two really big systems so they have this tendency to influence each other,” Bealo said. This “wiggle” of a storm is caught between that system and another large low pressure off the coast of Oregon. “Probably just rain down here, maybe something like 2 to 4 inches up top.”īrianna Bealo, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Grand Junction, said this first storm is moving around a low-pressure system that is rotating around the Great Lakes. “It looks like we are going to have an impulse, some good precipitation from Sunday night into Monday,” Weissbluth said. That snow blanketing much of Mount Werner will be added to early this week, with a series of waves that will bring precipitation to the area, as Weissbluth said the weather pattern looks unsettled from Sunday night until Wednesday afternoon. “Most of it is from that one storm, so it’s difficult to draw any long-term conclusions about it.” There’s snow up there,” Weissbluth said, adding that the data shows little more than that. “You look up at the top of the mountain, and it looks good. “It clearly shows that we have had more snow, through the state, than average,” said Mike Weissbluth, a local meteorologist who runs the forecasting website. The Yampa-White-Little Snake river basin is more than double the median as a whole, the highest of any watershed in the state. One measurement site north of Mount Zirkel, known as Lost Dog, is measuring 1,500% the amount of snow water equivalent of the median for late October. Snowfall is outpacing the 30-year median in the mountains around Steamboat Springs so far, with some measurement locations on Buffalo Pass and Rabbit Ears Pass nearing 400% the median as of Oct. While not an indicator of things to come, it is a sign of a strong start to the winter. Snowfall on Rabbit Ears is outpacing the 30-year median so far, with nearly 400% the snow water equivalent. Highway 40 along Rabbit Ears Pass on Wednesday, Oct. A Colorado Department of Transportation plow truck clears snow from U.S.

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