Significant storms brewing for West Coast with extreme double-digit feet of mountain snow possible, heavy rain

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Many rounds of upland snow and dense rainfall are brewing for the West, providing much alleviation to the existent drought conditions that is plaguing aggregate states with the worst snowfall drought successful decades.

This is seen successful the Upper Colorado Basin, which is facing an all-time grounds debased magnitude of snowfall for this clip of year.

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In Salt Lake City, UT, it has been 330 days since the metropolis has seen 1 inch of snow, portion successful Grand Junction, CO, it has been 442 days.

In an aerial view, patchy snowfall remains connected a play course, which is usually utilized for cross-country skiing successful the winter, connected February 9, 2026 successful Park City, Utah.

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It is expected that a ample dip successful the jet stream volition stall implicit the West starting Sunday, allowing for an progressive upwind signifier to footwear in.

This opens the doorway for aggregate storms to bring successful much-welcome snowfall to the mountains and rainfall to the lowlands.

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The strategy volition statesman successful California arsenic a beardown country of debased unit volition slam the region. At the aforesaid time, the strategy volition substance aggregate consequent storms that volition funnel successful much dense rain.

Snow forecast done adjacent week.
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The FOX Forecast Center predicts rounds of snowfall done the extremity of adjacent week, with immoderate areas successful the mountains expected to spot utmost totals of feet of snowfall successful the double-digits.

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This volition supply captious alleviation to the snow-starved regions crossed the Sierra, Rockies, Colorado Basins and Wasatch ranges.

The precipitation outlook for adjacent week.
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In the little elevations, specified arsenic Southern California, dense rainfall is expected starting aboriginal successful the week.

Los Angeles, CA and San Diego, CA could spot up to 5 inches of rain, perchance causing flash flooding. This is particularly apt adjacent pain scars from last year's devastating wildfires.

SANTA MONICA, CA - MARCH 12, 2025 - - Workers locomotion on Pacific Coast Highway, astatine Estrada Dr.., minutes earlier the road was shutdown successful Santa Monica connected March 12, 2025. Caltrans closed a conception of Pacific Coast Highway to residents and businesses successful pain scar areas astatine noon Wednesday owed to information concerns from the incoming storm. Only exigency vehicles and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers debris-hauling contractors volition beryllium allowed done the closure. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

FILE- SANTA MONICA, CA - MARCH 12, 2025 - - Workers locomotion on Pacific Coast Highway, astatine Estrada Dr.., minutes earlier the road was shutdown successful Santa Monica connected March 12, 2025. Caltrans closed a conception of Pacific Coast Highway to residents and businesses successful pain scar areas astatine noon Wednesday owed to information concerns from the incoming storm. Only exigency vehicles and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers debris-hauling contractors volition beryllium allowed done the closure. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

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As for close now, determination is lone a ¼ flash flood menace successful place.

Even aft this tempest passes, the NOAA Climate Prediction Center predicts that overmuch of the West volition proceed to spot an above-average magnitude of precipitation through the extremity of February.