It’s a powder day down south.

As forecasted, snow developed on Wednesday and delivered its contents throughout the day, evening and overnight to the southern mountains. Hesperus and Purgatory both received 12 inches while at 6:30 a.m. it was still snowing hard at Wolf Creek.

Telluride, Silverton and Kendall all received over five inches of snow as the storm was able to push over the southern San Juans into the northern peaks. Farther north into Gunnison and Chaffee counties, the snow accumulations were less but Crested Butte and Monarch did pick up low-ranging forecasted snow totals in the 3-5 inch range.

North of US Highway 50 the snow totals were even less, lining up with the ECMWF forecast of 1-3 inches. 

Today’s 24 hour snow total from Colorado resorts:

Arapahoe Basin – 1″

Aspen Mountain – 1″

Aspen Highlands – 2″

Beaver Creek – 0″

Breckenridge – 0″

Buttermilk – 0″

Cooper – 1″

Copper Mountain – 0″

Crested Butte – 3″

Echo Mountain – 0″

Eldora Mountain – 1″

Granby Ranch – 0″

Hesperus – 12″, Opens mid-Dec.

Howelsen Hill – 0″

Kendall Mountain – 5″, Opens Dec. 15

Keystone – 1″

Loveland – 1″

Monarch – 4″

Powderhorn – 0″

Purgatory – 12″

Silverton – 7″, Heli-only, guided Dec. 28

Snowmass – 0″

Steamboat – 0″

Sunlight – 0″

Telluride – 9″

Vail – 1″

Winter Park – 0″

Wolf Creek – 10″