A handful of Utah resorts are planning to open this week following northern Utah's first big storm of the season, and there's more snow on the way.

The National Weather Service’s Salt Lake City office expects northern and central Utah mountain ranges to receive 20 to 40 inches of snow from Thursday evening into late Saturday. The national service implemented a winter storm watch for northern Utah’s mountains at 2 a.m. Thursday. It’s set to stay in place until Sunday at 5 a.m.

A University of Utah professor of atmospheric sciences says the Cottonwood canyons have all the ingredients for the best powder on the planet.

Parts of Utah were dusted with snow Sunday morning, prompting authorities to remind people to drive and recreate safely.

After a bit of a delay to start of winter in the Wasatch, Alta Ski Area has announced their new opening date. The beloved Utah ski area will officially open for the 2025/26 ski season on Sunday, December 7, 2025.

Late Monday afternoon, Park City Mountain announced it’s opening Dec. 5. “Winter took the scenic route, but it’s here and Park City Mountain is ready,” the resort. Opening day will mark the debut of its new Sunrise Gondola, Utah’s first 10-person gondola.

It's one of only two December tornadoes on record in Utah since 1950, according to NOAA's storm events database. The other one, an F0, damaged trees and a few homes in Pleasant View, north of Ogden, on Dec. 5, 1995.

Winter doesn't officially arrive until Dec. 21, which marks the first day of winter and the winter solstice, but much of the U.S. is already getting doused with winter weather. An "arctic blast" of cold and snow is moving across the U.S., and according to research from the Weather Channel, it's ...