Traffic began flowing more smoothly Tuesday in spite of heavy snows along the Wasatch Front.
"Hopefully ... that has to do with people just driving more carefully," said Utah Highway Patrol spokesman Cameron Roden.
Whereas Monday's storm left roads littered with cars, Tuesday's roads remained relatively safe. Salt Lake County reported 40 crashes with nine slide-offs, and Utah County reported 18 crashes and seven slide-offs.
In Spanish Fork Canyon, an eastbound semitrailer jackknifed on the road at about 4 p.m., closing all but one lane of U.S. Highway 6 for about 45 minutes and closing the highway to all other semitrucks for two hours, Roden said.
Resorts, however, hit the jackpot, with 27 new inches of snow at Alta, 21 inches at the crest of Brighton and Snowbird, 18 inches at Solitude, 15 inches at Park City and 11 inches at the Canyons.
In the valleys, snow was heaviest in Utah County, with 8 inches in Springville and Provo.
Snow and rain Tuesday night was expected to taper off overnight and into the morning, with a high of 42 degrees expected today.
The storm that gave Utah a white Christmas accounted for nearly a third of the precipitation recorded in December.
Overall, 1.28 inches came down in the state last month, .4 inches of that in the holiday storm, the National Weather Service said.
Snowfall was 20.8 inches at the airport -- 70 percent above normal, said the weather service's monthly summary for December.
Alta saw the most snow: 101.5 inches. Orderville had 25 inches, or more than two and a half times the norm for the month.
-Judy Fahys
