{"id":802663,"date":"2019-12-30T12:08:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T19:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=376650"},"modified":"2019-12-30T12:08:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T19:08:22","slug":"fresh-powder-on-the-way-to-colorado-this-week-with-up-to-8-inches-for-summit-county-ski-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/fresh-powder-on-the-way-to-colorado-this-week-with-up-to-8-inches-for-summit-county-ski-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh powder on the way to Colorado this week, with up to 8 inches for Summit County ski areas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ice boaters enjoy a frozen Lake Dillon on Friday, Dec. 27.<\/strong>
Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

FRISCO \u2014 After a week of mostly dry weather with a few sprinklings of snow, Ullr is returning to bring some real powder to Summit County.<\/p>\n

With cold, windy weather, trails at the ski areas have gotten firm, and the light dustings of snow haven\u2019t done much to help. But from New Year\u2019s Day through Friday, 4-8 inches of snow are expected in Summit County, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Jim Kalina. <\/p>\n

Kalina said the towns should expect at least 4 inches while the ski areas can expect up to 8. However, the storm is centered a bit north of Summit County. <\/p>\n

\u201cProbably the heaviest snow is going to be north of there,\u201d Kalina said, referring to Rabbit Ears Pass and the Steamboat area. <\/p>\n

As for temperatures, Kalina said they will drop from Wednesday to Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cTemperature wise, New Years Day, we\u2019re looking at a high of 34 and a low of 14,\u201d Kalina said. \u201cThursday, 26 for the high with a low of 8.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Friday, the National Weather Service predicts a high temperature of 26 degrees and a low of 12 degrees with a chance of snow after 2 a.m. Saturday. The service reports a chance of snow to continue into Sunday. <\/p>\n

Joel Gratz, founding meteorologist of Open Snow, reported that the snow New Year\u2019s Day will begin around midday and that Thursday, Friday and Saturday could all be powder days.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll signs are pointing toward significant snowfall for most mountains,\u201d Gratz wrote in his blog<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Gratz said the snow will fall heavily Wednesday night into Thursday morning and predicts that many ski areas will have 6 or more inches of accumulation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe best news is that multiple waves of energy will continue to move over Colorado on Thursday, Friday, and maybe even into Saturday morning. This means that snow will continue for the better part of 72 hours (with some breaks) and it\u2019s these extended snow cycles that usually lead to the best conditions,\u201d Gratz wrote.<\/p>\n

Gratz added in his extended forecast that there might be a fair amount of snow throughout the first half of January.<\/p>\n

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Ice boaters enjoy a frozen Lake Dillon on Friday, Dec. 27.Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com FRISCO \u2014 After a week of mostly dry weather with a few sprinklings of snow, Ullr is returning to bring some real powder to Summit County. With cold, windy weather, trails at the ski areas have gotten firm, and the light […]<\/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-802663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-29 16:59:16","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\/802663","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=802663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}