South America Daily Snow
By Luke Stone, Forecaster Posted 2 days ago July 11, 2025
Still Watching Next Week
Summary
A strong storm accompanied by an atmospheric river will impact the southern Andes over the next few days, with the main impacts in the southern zone near El Fraile. The models continue to show a storm for next week that should bring some accumulating snow from Monday through Wednesday, primarily in the central and southern zones.
Short Term Forecast
A storm will impact the southern part of the southern zone over the next few days, which will bring some rain and high elevation snow at El Fraile. This storm will feature an atmospheric river and strong winds through Sunday.
For the rest of the resorts in Chile and Argentina, our attention remains on the potential storm for the early part of next week. The models continue to show a system moving through the region in the Monday to Wednesday timeframe. The models have been consistent in showing this moderately sized storm. The ensembles are showing around 10 to 20 cm for this storm. As you can see, the ensembles keep this storm far enough south that impacts will be limited in the northern zone.
This potential system is still four days out, so we could see the track nudge a bit farther north and bring better accumulations to the northern zone. For now, the southern and especially central zones look to do best.
Next post on Monday.
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Luke Stone
Forecaster, OpenSnow
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