This moody spring storm is panning out almost exactly as the rest of the year at Arapahoe Basin, bringing just enough snow to tease, but not enough snow to appease.
One day after closing day, a fresh 6 inches is showing on the snowstake at 11,000 feet. A winter weather advisory said up to 12 inches could fall by 9 p.m. tonight with no accumulation at town level. We’ve had blasts of snow at the studios in Dillon, but it disappears before it can pile up.
Uphill travel at A-Basin is closed tomorrow and Wednesday, reopening Thursday, May 21 for skiers who want to earn their turns this Memorial Day weekend. A-Basin reminds you to watch for hidden obstacles, and we remind you to remember just how lean the slopes were looking before the first May storm extended the ski season three times. Skin at your own risk.
Another northern blast
Rocky Mountain National Park is again the epicenter of this storm with more than 6 inches of wet, sloppy snow showing on RMNP camera feeds from both ends of the park, west and east. Longs Peak has been socked in all day. A camera at Glacier Basin campground shows gloomy skies and white-capped trees. On a clear day you can see five mountain peaks.
Elsewhere, a snow station at Walden near the Wyoming border claims 6 inches. Downtown Nederland claims 1.5 inches. Just north of that, tiny Ward has 2.5 inches.
In southwestern Wyoming roughly 200 miles of I-80 between Rock Springs and Laramie has been closed most of the day for blowing snow and whiteouts with winds gusts over 60 miles per hour.
Images courtesy Arapahoe Basin and Rocky Mountain National Park.