Weather
This Utah snow forecast features a late-season cold storm Sunday through Tuesday, with the best mountain snowfall focused on the Cottonwoods and other high terrain. Utah’s lift-served ski season is closed across this forecast area, so this is mainly a backcountry and high-elevation coverage update rather than a resort-powder setup. Expect a dry, breezy Saturday, accumulating snow Sunday into Monday, lingering showers Tuesday, then a warmer and mostly dry stretch.
Saturday stays mostly dry and mild in the mountains before the colder system arrives. The individual models converge on a cold frontal passage reaching northern Utah Sunday morning and spreading south through the day, but they diverge on how efficiently the storm produces snow. Snow levels start high, near 9,000 feet in some areas, then fall quickly toward 5,000-7,000 feet by Sunday night and Monday. Winds will be noticeable ahead of and with the front, with many exposed ridges seeing gusts around 30-45 mph and locally higher gusts in the southern high terrain.
Sunday night through Monday is the core of the storm, and confidence is highest from Sunday morning, May 17 through Tuesday evening, May 19. The strongest signal is in the Cottonwoods, where storm totals land around 7-12 inches, while the Park City side and Wasatch Back are closer to 4-7 inches. Southern Utah’s high terrain should also pick up snow, with Eagle Point around 4-6 inches. Snow quality starts denser in spots, then improves as colder air settles in, with SLRs mostly in the 8-14 range during the better snow period.
After Tuesday, the individual models converge on a drying and warming trend with little meaningful new snow through Tuesday, May 26. Mountain temperatures recover steadily from the cold Sunday-Monday period, and snow levels rise back above most terrain later in the week. The longer-range pattern favors above-normal temperatures and near-normal precipitation for Utah, so any late-period precipitation signal looks limited and too warm or too uncertain for specific ski-focused snowfall expectations.
Utah Snow Forecast Resort Totals (Sun May 17 – Tue May 19)
- Alta – 9-12 inches
- Snowbird – 8-11 inches
- Brighton – 7-10 inches
- Solitude – 7-10 inches
- Park City – 5-7 inches
- Eagle Point – 4-6 inches
- Deer Valley – 4-5 inches
- Beaver Mountain – 3-4 inches
- Powder Mountain – 3-4 inches
