Upper LCC seamed to pick up a foot of new snow in the last 24 hours. Storm total since Thursday night are around 24"(62cm) at 10k. Which is around 12.5% SWE at that location. Looks like most upper elevation sites got between 2 and 3 inches of water weight added to the snowpack. A fair bit of graupel with in the new snow, some of which was rimed. It seamed like the rain line reached around 7700' Saturday afternoon. That did not help build our low elevation snowpack but did do a good job of filling in lots of upper elevation terrain. Height of snow is now 130cm on high north aspects. This storm bought our snowpack in many locations to over 100% of Median. As of 12-11. Still early but nice to see...
Central Wasatch:
Mill D. BCC- 107%
Brighton- 111%
Snowbird-101%
Parleys Summit- 143%
Northern Wasatch:
Ben Lomond Peak -164%
Lightning Ridge- 193%
Southern Wasatch:
Cascade- 112%
Timpanogos Divide- 98%
I averaged all ten storms that have been at least 6'" at Alta this year. Those ten storms averaged put us at 11% SWE for the year. Maybe our typical Intermountain snowpack might be headed towards more of a maritime type pack this year. This pineapple express type storm cycle sure felt maritime....
11-17 7%
11-21 12%
11-23 8%
11-27 5%
11/28 8%
11-29 12%
12-8 15%
12-9 14%
12-10 17%
12-11 13% Average 11% As of 12-11