Skies are trending clear after the "storm".

Storm totals are a trace to 3", with upper Little Cottonwood boasting the angry three inches of new snow. Winds are light to moderate from the northwest; mountain temperatures have dropped into the teens to single digits.

Should be a stunner of a day today - mostly sunny, light to moderate winds from the northwest, temperatures rising to the upper teens to mid-20s. Some might view the new snow as lipstick on a pig, but my glass is half full. The Outlook: a ridge of high pressure builds yet again for the foreseeable future, although we might see a lost and wayward flurry or two on Monday as a weak storm races by to the north.

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Heavily-rimed grains
Whether from Heaven or hose
Facet ‘neath cold skies.

❄️ Haiku by Mark Saurer, editor Quinn Graves

But back to the "glass is half-full". Even though it hasn't really snowed in weeks, we've been able to find decent, if slow, skiing and riding in the protected northerly aspects in the recrystallized, AKA "square" powder. Owing to clear skies and a strong temperature gradient near the surface of the snowpack, the snow has metamorphosed into small, loose, angular faceted grains. Special thanks to Doug Wewer (snowflake photographer) and Jed Workman, from the Square Powder lab.

Adam Crow toured in upper Mill D North yesterday and noted the loose dry facet sluffs were "fast moving and would run long distances". His full report is HERE.