{"id":802315,"date":"2019-12-14T09:59:29","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T16:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=375989"},"modified":"2019-12-14T09:59:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T16:59:29","slug":"summit-county-ski-areas-tally-as-much-as-28-inches-from-2-day-storm-with-more-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/summit-county-ski-areas-tally-as-much-as-28-inches-from-2-day-storm-with-more-on-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit County ski areas tally as much as 28 inches from 2-day storm with more on the way"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A skier enjoys 10 inches of fresh powder Friday at Arapahoe Basin Ski Area. Another 7 inches was reported Saturday morning.<\/strong>
Ian Zinner \/ Arapahoe Basin Ski Area<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

DILLON \u2014 For those who got to spend the past couple of days on the slopes rather than stuck in traffic on Interstate 70, this storm has lived up to the hype.<\/p>\n

Heavy snow closed Summit County schools Friday<\/a>, and when you live in the mountains, a snow day is a ski day.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, OpenSnow meteorologist Sam Collentine was calling for heavy bands of snow that could drop flakes up at a rate of 1-3 inches per hour<\/a>. That intense snowfall materialized, meaning free refills of powder at Summit ski areas.<\/p>\n

Breckenridge Ski Resort was the big winner out of the storm, totaling more than 2 feet of snow \u2014 28 inches \u2014 on its Friday and Saturday reports combined. Loveland Ski Area\u2019s two-day total was 21 inches, Arapahoe Basin Ski Area and Copper Mountain Resort tied at 17 inches, and Keystone reported 12 inches.<\/p>\n

And the storm is not over yet.<\/p>\n

Summit County remains under a winter storm warning until 11 p.m. Saturday, with snow expected to continue into Sunday.<\/p>\n

National Weather Service meteorologist Greg Hanson said snowfall is expected to pick back up Saturday afternoon before tapering off at about midnight.<\/p>\n

He expects the Summit County ski areas will pick up another 10-12 inches though Saturday night with 4-6 inches forecast to fall in the towns.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Hanson said scattered snow showers are expected to drop 3-5 inches in the mountains with 1-3 inches in the towns before the storm rolls out of the area.<\/p>\n

With the most intense part of the storm over, Hanson also said that the wind should not be a bad Saturday, with 30-40 mph gusts expected on high mountain passes.<\/p>\n

Avalanche danger remains high in the Summit County and Vail areas. It\u2019s also listed as high in the nearby Steamboat and Flat Tops, Front Range, Aspen, Gunnison and Sawatch regions, according to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center.<\/p>\n

Summit and Vail remain under an avalanche warning through 8 a.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cLarge human triggered avalanches are likely near and above treeline,\u201d according to the warning. \u201cIf you trigger an avalanche it will break near the ground and will be large enough to bury or kill you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Avalanche danger is rated high (very dangerous) above and near tree line, and considerable (dangerous) below tree line, according to the avalanche forecasting site<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The danger is expected to subside slightly Sunday to considerable (dangerous).<\/p>\n

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A skier enjoys 10 inches of fresh powder Friday at Arapahoe Basin Ski Area. Another 7 inches was reported Saturday morning.Ian Zinner \/ Arapahoe Basin Ski Area DILLON \u2014 For those who got to spend the past couple of days on the slopes rather than stuck in traffic on Interstate 70, this storm has lived […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-802315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-30 11:41:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}