Special guest, Jim Steenburgh AKA Professor Powder, professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Utah and author of the book THE GREATEST SNOW ON EARTH. The weather triangle of precipitation, wind, and temperature/solar radiation; weather is the architect of the snowpack; seasonal variations in weather patterns; local effects that impact Wasatch winter storms; atmospheric rivers; Lake Effect myths, brine shrimp included; decision making by consensus and outliers; why Alta does indeed have the Greatest Snow on Earth.