SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH — A cool and closed upper-level low pressure system is tracking toward Utah late tonight into Friday, bringing a remarkable late May snowfall threat to the highest elevations of the Wasatch Range and Uinta Mountains, with some models suggesting pockets of up to a foot of snow possible across the high Uintas — an extraordinary accumulation for the final days of May.
High Uinta Mountains Could See Up to 12 Inches in Pockets According to Some Models
The most significant snowfall potential from this closed low event is concentrated across the high elevations of the Uinta Mountains, where some models are projecting pockets of snowfall accumulation reaching up to one full foot in the most elevated terrain. The OpenSnow radar imagery shows an intense precipitation core displayed in orange and red shading directly over the Ashley National Forest and high Uinta terrain, with blue shading extending outward across a broader zone of the Uinta Basin and surrounding mountain terrain…