Old Man Winter Checks Into Steamboat For The Week

Powder hounds are in disarray. Over four feet of snow in one week and it is not January!! Some might have even left town thinking that the fun was over. We have guests staying in our catered chalets and vacation rental homes that are grinning from ear to ear. Yes folks - tomorrow is April 1st - but this is no joke!

With more than 30 feet of snow this winter, Steamboat has reached another snow milestone, recording a four-wire winter, when the snow stacks up past the fourth row of fence wires. Yampa Valley ranchers have traditionally measured the severity of a Routt County winter by how high the snow stacks up against their four fence wires.

The resort is currently in a storm cycle that has yielded 15 inches at mid-mountain and 16 inches at the summit overnight; and, over 48 inches in the past week. And it is STILL SNOWING!

Since Opening Day, November 26th, the resort has recorded snowfall 76 days out of 126 with 46 of those days seeing 4-or-more inches. Steamboat is reporting a 76-inch base at mid-mountain and 101-inch base at the summit on powder conditions.

Issued by The National Weather Service
Grand Junction, CO
12:29 pm MDT, Tue., Mar. 31, 2009

... WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT WEDNESDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND JUNCTION HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR HEAVY SNOW... WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT WEDNESDAY. THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.

WIDESPREAD SNOW CONTINUES TODAY WITH PERIODS OF HEAVY SNOWFALL EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND OVERNIGHT. EXPECT SNOW TO CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE DAY ON WEDNESDAY BRINGING TOTAL STORM ACCUMULATIONS RANGING FROM 8 TO 16 INCHES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. STRONG WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. THIS WILL MAKE TRAVEL VERY HAZARDOUS OR IMPOSSIBLE.