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Four Corners Snow: Wrapping Up Today

1 Jan 2022, 10:35 am

After a slow snow start to the season for the Four Corners, the snowpack continues to climb, bringing in some fresh powder to end of 2021 and start 2022. Incredible snow totals have been measured from snow earlier this week, especially for parts of Wyoming and Colorado!

Alerts

Winter Weather Alerts continue through this afternoon for New Mexico and Colorado. Upwards of 2 additional inches of snow will be possible in the highest mountain peaks of these areas through the New Year. Even more lower elevation snow in spots, scroll down for the latest forecast totals.

Forecast Timeline

Through New Year’s Day, snow showers will gradually come to an end across Utah and Arizona, then eventually Colorado and New Mexico by Saturday night. Temperatures will be unseasonably cold so that means snow and ice will stick around on the ground.

Forecast Accumulation

A few inches of additional snow to accumulate is expected through Saturday. This will add to the overall totals that fell earlier this week.

Expect moderate impacts to travel in some locations, especially higher elevations. The I-15, I-70 and I-25 corridors will be the most impacted interstates, but state roads and mountain passes in high elevations will be very impacted by this incoming snow. With some of the heaviest snow fell on New Year’s Eve, be very careful when out and about on New Year’s Day celebrating as roads could become hazardous quickly.

Updates on this and all of the west coast are on WeatherNation at :50 past the hour, every hour, every day!

About the author
Erik Kostrzewa was born and raised in the state of Michigan; spending much of his life in the suburbs of Detroit. Erik attended the University of Michigan and earned a Bachelor’s Degr... Load Moreee in Earth Systems Science and Engineering with a concentration in Meteorology. His first on-air job was straight out of college in Lansing, Michigan at WLNS-TV. After a few years, he moved an hour west to Grand Rapids to continue his career at FOX17 news. While in the heart of the lower peninsula, Erik covered a wide variety of challenging weather from lake-effect snow to derechos. Erik definitely has an interesting last name which comes from his Polish descent. If you are wondering how it is pronounced, the easiest way to say it is “Ka-Stree-Va”. Erik is thrilled to forecast on a national scale at WeatherNation and experience an even wider range of weather in Colorado! He is also looking forward to experiencing his first 14er on one of the many mountains in the state. Follow Erik on Twitter and Facebook!