Storm day playbook
This is the playbook this site runs on a Wasatch storm day, published so you can hold it to account. Six steps, in order, every storm.
1. The night before
When the Weather Service posts a winter storm warning for the Wasatch, the corridors get a full read: forecast per canyon top, UDOT forecasted road weather, and any traction posting UDOT has already made under the 24 hour rule. If a class is posted, the traction page leads with it that evening, not the next morning.
2. Control work hours
Avalanche control in the Cottonwoods usually runs before the ski traffic. The closures page carries every posted closure with UDOT's reopening estimate, and the verdict on each corridor page updates as the feed does. We never publish an opening time UDOT has not posted.
3. The morning decision window
Between 5 and 9 AM the comparison pages do their real work. Parleys against the Cottonwoods, canyon against canyon, all live. This is the window the whole site is designed for, and it is why the verdict is one sentence at the top of every page instead of a paragraph at the bottom.
4. Media and radio
The for media page carries the same live verdicts in quotable form, with UDOT credited as the source, so a morning show can read a status on air and name where it came from. Storm days are when local radio needs a number to call and a page to cite; this site intends to be both.
5. The surge watch
When one canyon closes, the other absorbs its traffic. The events lists and verdicts are watched for the substitution surge, and the comparison pages say plainly when an open canyon has stopped moving. Open and flowing are different claims and this site makes them separately.
6. After the storm
Nothing comes down. The status history keeps the day, the storm archive collects it, and the postings that were wrong, if any source posted one, stay visible in the record with their timestamps. A conditions site earns trust in the archive, not in the forecast.