It's spring — where's the sun?

Today is the first day of spring and the beginning of a time when Utah's weather can be warm and sunny, rainy and cool, or snowy and cold — sometimes all in the same day.

Brandon Smith, a Salt Lake City-based meteorologist with the National Weather Service, sums up spring weather in the Beehive State with one word: "Unpredictable."

Spring began this morning with snow on the ground throughout the Wasatch Front, and more snow is predicted for tonight, particularly in mountain areas.

But it's not just wet stuff from the sky Utahns will have to contend with over the next couple of months.

"We've had quite an abundance of snow this winter in the mountains, so as we approach the warmer season, be ready for the potential of flooding and high water," Smith said.

The snowpack in the Wasatch and Uinta mountains is between 100 percent and 150 percent of normal, he said. The mountains in the central part of the state have a snowpack that is about normal, and the snowpack in the southern Utah mountains is between 80 percent and 100 percent of normal, Smith said.

The weekend storm did nothing but add to the snowpack as it dumped more than two feet of snow in some mountain locations.

From Thursday night through late Sunday, Farmington Canyon had received 25 inches of snow, the most of any location reported by the Weather Service. Snowbird and Alta received 23 inches of snow; Brighton and Solitude got about a foot of snow and so did Snowbasin. Parts of the Oquirrh Mountains received more then 20 inches.

In Utah County, Pleasant Grove and Orem had about six inches of snow and Provo measured about five. In Salt Lake County, just one inch of snow fell at Salt Lake City International Airport, but Taylorsville and West Jordan got almost four inches. East Millcreek had two inches.

Tooele reported six inches of snow, Layton three, Logan five and Park City had a total of three inches of snow during the storm.

Sunday's weather caused a number of problems on the roads.

In Salt Lake County, there were at least two crashes with injuries, 26 wrecks resulting in property damage, and at least eight slide-offs, Utah Highway Patrol Sgt. Greg Willmore said. About five of those wrecks occurred within a half hour of each other, beginning about 6 p.m., on the Salt Lake side of Point of the Mountain during heavy snowfall.