South America Daily Snow
By Luke Stone, Forecaster Posted 28 days ago May 27, 2025
Another Solid Storm This Past Weekend
Summary
Over the holiday weekend, we saw another round of heavy snow in the Andes, with the best accumulations likely in the northern zone. A strong ridge will develop off the coast, keeping the region dry through at least the end of this week.
Short Term Forecast
This storm delivered significant snow totals, with reports of 15 to 30 cm in the northern zone. These types of storms are good for base-building, and we've had several of them so far this month.
Unfortunately, our weather for the next five to seven days will be dominated by a strong ridge of the Chilean coast. This will keep storms to the south during this time.
The European ensemble, shown above, has a storm in the north starting around June 3rd. Other models keep the dry pattern around for a few more days. Until the models come into better agreement on the timing of the ridge breaking down and how things look when it does, we just have to wait and watch.
Resorts are expected to start opening in mid to late June, so there's still plenty of time for more storms to help build the base depths/
My next post will be on Wednesday or Thuraday.
Thanks for reading the South America Daily Snow!
Luke Stone
Forecaster, OpenSnow
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