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🇦🇺🇳🇿 Southern Hemisphere Weekly Snow Roundup #316
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Kirkwood at 2377 m altitude
Issued by Snow-Forecast.com at: 4 am (local time) / 28 May 2026
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Next 3 days weather summary:A light covering of new snow, mostly falling on Thu afternoon. Becoming milder with light rain (total 2.0mm) on Fri morning. Freeze-thaw conditions (max 9°C on Sat afternoon, min -1°C on Thu night). Wind will be generally light. | Days 4-6 weather summary:Mostly dry. Very mild (max 19°C on Tue afternoon, min 6°C on Sun night). Wind will be generally light. | |||||||||||||||||
Thursday 28 | Friday 29 | Saturday 30 | Sunday 31 | Monday 1 | Tuesday 2 | |||||||||||||
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light snow | light snow | light snow | light rain | light rain | some clouds | clear | clear | clear | clear | clear | clear | clear | clear | clear | clear | clear | some clouds | |
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1 | 5 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
— | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
max °C | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 8 | 16 | 18 | 11 | 17 | 19 | 11 |
min °C | 0 | 1 | -1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 6 | 11 | 16 | 9 | 14 | 17 | 8 |
0 | 0 | -1 | -1 | 1 | -2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 8 | 14 | 16 | 5 | |
88 | 98 | 90 | 97 | 93 | 69 | 70 | 55 | 41 | 26 | 32 | 39 | 16 | 23 | 33 | 28 | 26 | 19 | |
2550 | 2550 | 2600 | 2750 | 2950 | 3250 | 3050 | 3300 | 3500 | 3700 | 3950 | 3900 | 4150 | 4300 | 4300 | 4450 | 4500 | 4550 | |
 | 5:39 | — | — | 5:37 | — | — | 5:37 | — | — | 5:37 | — | — | 5:37 | — | — | 5:37 | — | — |
 | — | — | 8:15 | — | — | 8:15 | — | — | 8:16 | — | — | 8:17 | — | — | 8:17 | — | — | 8:19 |
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Kirkwood Snow Conditions
| Top snow depth: | — |
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| Bottom snow depth: | — |
| Fresh snowfall depth: | 3 cm |
| Last snowfall: | 27 May 2026 |
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Other resorts in USA - California are reporting: powder (0) / good piste (0)
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Week 4 of May has on average:
0.1 | Bluebird Powder days Fresh snow, mostly sunny, light wind. |
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0.6 | Powder days Fresh snow, limited sun, any wind. |
0.1 | Bluebird days Average snow, mostly sunny, light wind. |
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Another Kirkwood powder day by barneyh
Wagon Wheel Bowl by Jean-Christophe Morin
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The above table gives the weather forecast for Kirkwood at the specific elevation of 2377 m. Our sophisticated weather models allow us to provide snow forecasts for the top, middle and bottom ski stations of Kirkwood. To access the weather forecasts for the other elevations, use the tab navigation above the table. For a wider view of the weather, check out the Weather Map of United States.
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Visitor Reviews of Kirkwood
Overall 3.2 Based on 14 votes and 4 reviews
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- thibaut colar from United States writes:
Kirkwood is y favorite resort in CA, it's a little off the beaten path and there isn't much nightlife but that's not what i'm looking for. It start by a nice ride from the bay area on scenic and uncroded highway 88, then the resort alwasy gets the very best snow of the tahoe area (it gets lots of it, and since it's colder here, the snow is drier/colder). This is quite a large resort and not too crowded compared to the main tahoe resorts. Only drwaback is that it's not a secret anymore so it's changing a bit. But the bottom line is you won't be disappinted here, espceially if you are an intermediate to expert skier.
Visitor Reviews of Kirkwood
thibaut colar from United States writes:
Kirkwood is y favorite resort in CA, it's a little off the beaten path and there isn't much nightlife but that's not what i'm looking for.
It start by a nice ride from the bay area on scenic and uncroded highway 88, then the resort alwasy gets the very best snow of the tahoe area (it gets lots of it, and since it's colder here, the snow is drier/colder).
This is quite a large resort and not too crowded compared to the main tahoe resorts.
Only drwaback is that it's not a secret anymore so it's changing a bit.
But the bottom line is you won't be disappinted here, espceially if you are an intermediate to expert skier.
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