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The deck at Arapahoe Basin’s mid-mountain Black Mountain Lodge is a great place to chill on a day of spring skiing. (Ian Zinner, provided by Arapahoe Basin). A-Basin’s projected tentative closing date is June 6.
As of this week, 10 Colorado ski areas have closed for the season and five more will close this weekend, leaving 13 remaining open into mid-April or beyond. Four are expected to be open in May: Loveland, Winter Park, Arapahoe Basin and Breckenridge.
Above-normal temperatures and below-normal precipitation are predicted in one-month and three-month weather forecasts by the Climate Prediction Center of the National Weather Service, with drought persisting in the state.