While much of the ski world has been reporting fairly dry conditions recently, ski areas in the Rockies and further south in the Sangre de Cristo mountains of New Mexico have been posting big new snow accumulations from the latest storm.
Colorado's Wolf Creek Ski Area (Pictured above this week) reported 29 inches (72cm) of fresh snowfall in the latest storm, taking its all-natural snow depth past the 1oo inches/2.5 metre mark to 102 inches at its midpoint with Telluride another big winner. Taos, further south in New Mexico, posted 26 inches (65cm) in 48 hours.
Skies have now cleared but there are more big snowfalls forecast for the Rockies over the coming week.
The news from North America isn't all good though, on the East Coast, after exceptionally low temperatures at the start of the month, the region is returning to seeing warm weather spikes, as it did in December and January. Whitetail Resort in Pennsylvania is one of several forced to temporarily close due to warm, wet weather.
Currently the world's deepest snowpack is at 5.9m (just under 20 feet) at Mammoth Mountain in California, although that's down 70cm (2.3 feet) on the start of the month. Alta in Utah has the deepest base in the Rockies at 343cm (11.5 feet).