It looks like the mountains have picked up a couple of inches of snow this morning. Overnight SW winds blew in the 10-15 mph range with gusts in the mid 20's along ridgetops. They shifted to the NW around 5:00 a.m. and abruptly dropped into the single digits. Showers will linger this morning with mostly cloudy, but gradually clearing skies throughout the day. Northerly winds should be light, and high temps will be near 20 degrees at 10,000'. Dry conditions return for the foreseeable future.

Winter finally arrived in the region last weekend, bringing a decent shot of snow to the mountains, and even an inch or two to the valleys. Lower North Creek picked up 6" of new snow and upper elevations received up to 12". Matt Cozart was up on Tuesday and reported pretty uneven snow distribution with areas of deep drifting alongside bare ground. He also reported signs of instability such as whumphing, and cracking in the snow surface. These signs indicate that underlying old, weak snow is collapsing under the weight of recent and wind drifted snow. Read his observation here.

On Wednesday, Chris Benson did a flyover of the range and sent in this observation with pics.