Snow and wind reports. Good to see more heavy snow at the local ski areas

12/30/24 8:40am: Morning. Great to see some more heavy snow across parts of the north-central mountains and the local ski areas and its getting windy in spots as expected. First some notable 24hr snow reports below (the big winners so far were areas near Copper, Breck and Loveland with 8-10" reported at those ski areas, the rest of the ski areas picked up 1-6" with more to come today).

Here are some notable 24hr reports from ski areas and SNOTEL stations from CAIC aggregator:

Loveland: 10”
Breck: 9”
Copper: 8”
Ski Cooper: 8”
A-Basin: 6”
Aspen Highlands: 6”
Berthoud Pass snotel (top): 6”
Keystone: 5”
Eldora: 5”
Crested Butte: 4”
Vail: 4”
Winter Park: 4”
Wild Basin snotel (RMNP): 4”
Jones Pass snotel: 4”
Steamboat: 3”
Snowmass: 2”
Monarch: 2”
Beaver Creek: 1”
Telluride: 1”

Also getting windy in spots already. Here in Westminster starting to get some wind-gusts in the 40-50mph range but the strongest wind is coming. In parts of the mountains already some gusts to 60-70 mph in a few spots like top of Snowmass, Breck and Monarch Pass.

Here are a few notable gusts reports so far:

Monarch Pass: 78 mph
Breck Peak 8: 71
Dakota Hill (Black Hawk): 60 mph
Snowmass ski areas (top): 60mph
Superior: 59 mph
Arvada: 50 mph
Pole Creek YMCA (south of Granby): 50

Current satellite image shows most of the meaningful snow is confined right to the north-central mountains above 10k ft (in/around Summit, Grand and ClearCreek counties). Models show an additional 1-5" for the ski areas with highest amounts from A-Basin to Keystone to especially near Breck and Copper today.

And of course Den/Bou is under a High Wind Warning through 3pm today for westerly wind-gusts of up to 70mph, strongest in/near the foothills

First two images show 5am snow-stake's from Copper and Breck this morning, third image is current view of Loveland snow-stake. Fourth image shows current peak wind-gust reports since midnight. Fifth image is current IR-satellite showing snow over the central mountains.

How are conditions in your neck of the woods this morning?