[VIDEO] Chris Tomer’s Mountain Weather Update 5/6: May Storm to Bring Feet of Snow to Colorado and New Mexico Denver-based meteorologist Chris Tomer is one of the most accurate forecasters we know. Check out and subscribe to his mountain weather forecast videos to see where North America will get the most snow. “Panhandle Hooker storm system en route 5/5-5/7 with feet of accumulation above 9,000ft in CO & NM. Deep CO upslope favors Divide-East locations. Snow levels PM 5/6 […] Weather WeatherBrains | May 6, 2025 0 Comments
SnowBrains Forecast: 15 Inches of Snow For Colorado This Week Snow returns to Colorado’s high peaks beginning Sunday night, peaking on Tuesday with double-digit totals likely at Loveland, Monarch, and several Front Range and Southern resorts, before tapering to scattered light showers by Thursday and a warm, mostly dry pattern late week. A spring storm lifts moisture from the southwest, gradually lowers snow levels from around 10,000 feet to near […] Weather WeatherBrains | May 3, 2025 0 Comments
SnowBrains Forecast: Powder Day Incoming for Mammoth This Weekend A quick-hitting convective wave Saturday will freshen the central Sierra with 3″-7″ of new snow above 8,000 feet at Mammoth, after which high pressure locks in a dry, steadily warming pattern that persists well into next week. The brief burst will feature dense midday flakes transitioning to lighter powder Saturday night, while Sunday turns breezy and cooler before temperatures rebound […] Weather WeatherBrains | May 2, 2025 0 Comments
Climate Change Could Actually Lead to More Snow—But There’s a Catch In September, unprecedented levels of fall snow in the European Alps led to severe flooding in central Europe. Some areas in the eastern Alps of Austria saw over six and a half feet of snow. This unusual autumn snowfall kickstarted an early ski season across several resorts in the Alps. Related: Up to 10 Feet of Snowfall Forecast for Parts […] Weather Brent Thomas | May 2, 2025 1 Comment
SnowBrains Forecast: First Snow of the Season for New Zealand – Up to 20 Inches Expected Early season southerlies will bury New Zealand’s central-eastern Southern Alps in the first meaningful dump of 2025, while a weaker, wetter pulse brushes the North Island—excellent news for base-building but with quality that trends from dense to drier as temperatures fall then rebound. A compact low sliding up the South Island Wednesday night ignites a one-to-two-foot event for Canterbury fields, […] Weather WeatherBrains | April 30, 2025 0 Comments
SnowBrains Forecast: Active Pattern Keeps Snow Dumping in Colorado for the Next 10 Days Colorado’s spring keeps the powder skis handy this week. A quick mid-week refresher drops light, high-quality snow tonight into Thursday, a brief lull follows, and then a slow-moving low spins up from Sunday through late next week, driving the deepest totals and the best chance for several sleeper powder mornings—especially across the Front Range giants. Wednesday night-Thursday wave delivers a […] Weather WeatherBrains | April 30, 2025 0 Comments
Snowpack Levels Fall Below Average Across Most of Western U.S., New Data Shows The latest data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) reveals a below-average snowpack across much of the western United States, raising concerns for water supply, wildfire risk, and drought conditions heading into summer. According to the NRCS Westwide SNOTEL report for April 28, 2025, snow water equivalent (SWE) levels—a key indicator of the amount of […] Weather Martin Kuprianowicz | April 29, 2025 0 Comments
Winter 2024-25 Scorecard: How the Big Names in Long Range Weather Forecasting Fared Intro — Reading the Forecast Report Card Every September, the big forecasting brands splash colorful maps across social feeds, promising everything from “Worst of Winter” bullseyes to “Mild & Dry” respites. Now that lifts are grinding to a halt, we pored over snow-water-equivalent charts, resort snow ledgers, NOAA climate summaries, and more to see who nailed (or whiffed) the 2024-25 outlook. […] Weather WeatherBrains | April 28, 2025 0 Comments