There was a widespread western storm at the start of October, but most of that snow is gone. This week's storm of 1+ foot in some of the West may stick around if another storm comes fairly soon. The weather models look promising for next week but that's too far way to have much credibility now. For areas where most of this October snow melts away, I will not count it in season totals later.
California: The recent storm dropped 10 inches at Mammoth, 7-18 at Squaw and over 20 at Sugar Bowl. Mammoth is making snow
for its Nov. 7 opening. The larger amounts of recent snow at North Tahoe are more likely to melt out at lower altitude unless there
is another storm soon.
Pacific Northwest: The early storm caused Crystal and Stevens to open for one day each in early October. Mt. Bachelor has
3 inches of base remaining from the 17 inches in early October.
Canadian Rockies and Interior B.C.: October snow has been less than usual in this region. The only totals I can find are 11
inches at Revelstoke and 3 at Whitewater.
U. S. Northern Rockies: Jackson has had 28 inches at the summit but reports none at mid-mountain. Targhee has had 42 inches
and has a 22 inch base. Sun Valley has had 5 inches.
Utah: The Wasatch got the early October storm but it melted out. The recent storm dropped 13 inches at Snowbird and 10 at
Snowbasin.
Northern and Central Colorado: A-Basin and Loveland opened their first snowmaking runs on October 13 and 14. With ongoing
cool weather A-Basin is now 9% open and Loveland 6%. Loveland has had 16 inches snowfall since it opened. Steamboat has had 36 inches.
Southern and Western Colorado: The Gothic Snow Lab between Crested Butte and Aspen (snowier climate than either) had
34 inches in October, but most of that was in the first half of the month and the base is 4 inches. Wolf Creek has had 36 inches
and is open weekends on a 22 inch base.
Northeast: Killington and Sunday River opened last weekend on snowmaking. Killington remains 6% open.
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