An active pattern will be setting up across the West this week, bringing several rounds of snow to the Rockies and Great Basin. The first round moves on Tuesday with more snow expected Wednesday into Thursday. Several inches of snow will be possible in Salt Lake City with 1-3 feet possible across higher elevations. Watch this for your latest hour-by-hour forecast.

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As with any forecast, there are some things we do know and some things we do not know for the upcoming week. During the workweek, models agree on the general forecast with snow in New England and the Upper Midwest, plus a potential severe threat in the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys on Thursday. This weekend is when the models start to disagree. While the European model shows a quiet weekend for the eastern half of the country, the GFS (the American model) is showing a fresh storm brewing in the South that could bring snow to the mid-Atlantic.

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