A snowstorm that will slow Las Vegas-bound BYU fans will also slam into Salt Lake today.

Forecasters said Interstate 15 will be a "mess" as Cougar football fans head to Nevada to watch their team play Arizona at 6 p.m. Saturday in the Las Vegas Bowl.

Meanwhile, Salt Lake City residents will likely see blizzard-like conditions with 80-mph gusts in the mountains and about 6 inches of snow in the valley.

"Roads will be snow-covered, and conditions will be pretty dangerous from Salt Lake to Beaver," said Colby Neuman, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Salt Lake City. The recent string of snowstorms stem from a system bringing moisture from the Pacific Ocean across Utah.

While Friday morning's commute might not be affected, gusty winds and blowing snow are expected later today.

High temperatures will hover around freezing in northern Utah. Single-digit lows are expected tonight.

The latest front forced the closure of schools in the 24,000-student Washington County School District. The district parked its roughly 100 buses Thursday because of the accumulations blanketing Utah's Dixie.

Kane County was hit Thursday with heavy snows that dropped about 8 inches in Kanab and Orderville, which Neuman termed "impressive."

Kane County Commissioner Mark Habbeshaw said road crews worked hard to keep pace with the winter weather.

"It's a 25-year snow event," Habbeshaw said.

New Harmony, about 10 miles south of Cedar City, collected about 17 inches of snow Thursday in addition to 22 inches that fell earlier this week.

Lifelong New Harmony resident Clyde Hunt was busy shoveling his front walk Thursday.

He said the amount of snow the small Washington County community has received is rare, occurring about once every 20 years .

"I measured 21 inches of snow last night [Wednesday] and got better than a foot of snow since then," Hunt said. "It [depth] has to be close to 3 feet."

Rod Fenn, who lives in New Harmony and drives a refrigerated truck for a Cedar City company, agreed it was the most snow he's seen in two decades.

Fenn spent most of Thursday digging his truck out of the snow where he pulled off the road Wednesday.

"This is the most I've seen in 20 years," Fenn said. "But after seven to 10 years of drought, it's not that bad."

Iron County, which averaged about 7 inches of snow, kept its schools open Thursday.