Seasonal closures are in place for the Mirror Lake Highway and currently, there's no winter maintenance or plowing.
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Nowcast-
Last night's storm materialized nicely, particularly for the North Slope, delivering 4" of light density snow. Further south across the range snow totals are about half that amount. Under mostly cloudy skies, light snow is falling and temperatures are in the single digits. Northwest winds blow 10-20 mph along the high peaks, where windchill values register in negative territory.
Forecast-
Look for scattered snow showers this morning with high temperatures barely cracking out of the teens. Skies clear as the day progresses and northerly winds increase late in the day, gusting into the 40's by late tonight. Clear skies tonight allow the bottom to fall out with overnight lows near zero.
Futurecast-
High pressure returns for Friday and builds through the weekend providing sunny skies with temperatures climbing into the 40's. A cold front slides through the region Monday, but the jury is still out regarding available moisture.
We are in the process of establishing a snow study site near Camp Steiner. The automated weather station delivers real-time snow fall, total snow depth, and current temperatures. This data fills in a big black hole of snow information near Mirror Lake. Yesterday we visited the site to establish comms with Lofty Lake Peak and all is go to start hauling the gear into place next week. I'd like to give a big shout out to Sean and Jesse from the NWS along with Ted Scroggin, our main man in the Uinta's, pictured above.
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