Chance of snow forecasted for high elevations this week

Alta's Albion Basin at sunrise on Tuesday, September 10, 2024. Forecasters are predicting snow in the High Wasatch peaks and Uintas later this week. Photo: Alta Webcam

PARK CITY, Utah – As a cool trough of weather moves into northern Utah this week, forecasters are predicting a chance for high elevation snow Wednesday and beyond.

As the trough drops into the Great Basin Tuesday, expect wind and thunderstorms to pick up across Utah. Temperatures will become noticeably cooler Wednesday with highs in Salt Lake in the low 70s and as cool as 50s and 60s in Park City.

OpenSnow’s Evan Thayer is predicting a chance of snow for the high Uintas and high peaks of the Wasatch. The National Weather Service report for Alta calls for a chance of snow showers between 9am and noon Thursday, followed by rain and possible thunder after noon on Thursday, possibly into Thursday night with a low of 36 degrees at the base.

The first snow of the 2023-2024 winter season in Utah arrived on September 4, 2023, with a dusting visible at Snowbird and on Bald Mountain Pass at an elevation of 10,715 feet.