POCATELLO — Snow showers that started late Sunday and continued throughout Monday morning contributed to slick streets and a few non-injury car crashes, but they were a welcome site to the staff at Pebble Creek Ski Area.

At the Pocatello Regional Airport, the National Weather Service reported receiving 0.9 inches of snow from Sunday evening until midnight, and another 0.8 inches from early Monday until the late morning.

However, meteorologist Alex DeSmet said up to 4 inches fell in the Buckskin Road area.

High elevations, such as Bonneville Peak, where Pebble Creek is located, received heavier snowfall. According to Pebble Creek staff, the base of the ski area had more than 24 inches of accumulation through Monday morning, and the depth was about 3 feet at the top of the main lift. Staff members anticipate they’ll announce their opening date before the week’s end.

DeSmet said the area’s mountain snowpack was ahead of the average through Monday morning, ranging from 114 to 124 percent of normal.

DeSmet said the service issued a “special weather statement” regarding the storm just before 7 a.m. Monday, warning motorists to drive with caution throughout Southeast Idaho. DeSmet described the statement as being a step down from a winter weather advisory.

Idaho State Police sent a press release at 6 p.m. Sunday advising motorists in the Pocatello area, driving on Interstate 15 or Interstate 86, to use caution.

State police wrote that they were “investigating several slide-offs and property damage crashes on the two interstates near the city. On Monday morning, state police said they responded to a pair of property-damage crashes from the Pocatello office and assisted Fort Hall Police in responding to a crash on Interstate 15 by milepost 79. No injuries were reported.

The Bannock County Sheriff’s Office also responded to a few non-injury accidents, including an 8 a.m. crash involving a Marsh Valley School District 21 school bus and a car on Jackson Creek Road. No students were on board the bus, and nobody was injured, according to the sheriff’s office. The sheriff’s office reported three other non-injury crashes between midnight and late Monday morning.

“I think we’ve had like we do every year with the first big snow, everybody still thinking the speed limit sign means that’s what you have to do,” Bannock County Sheriff Lorin Nielsen said. “They plow (the roads), but they’re still going to be icy.”

Nielsen advised motorists to avoid using cruise control on the freeways when roads are slick and to drive according to road conditions.