If you spend enough time outdoors in the summer, you are bound to run into a situation that exposes you to the dangers of lightning. The mountains are especially prone, as they are either in or close to the base of the clouds, which makes for a shorter and easier electrical connection to the ground. … Continue reading Lightning Safety →

All we have heard so far this spring is that we are in for a hot, dry, summer with a busy wildfire season expected over the next few months. As I look back at the last 20 years or so, that has pretty much been the outlook almost every summer here in Northwest Wyoming. Will … Continue reading Summer 2026 Outlook →

Flip-flopping spring weather is perfectly normal. The weather in March this year was more like April. And April’s weather was like the March we should have had. From warm and sunny days into the 70’s, to cold and snowy days with highs in the 30’s, April 2026 had something for every weather connoisseur’s tastes. In … Continue reading Spring Weather’s Up and Downs →

I received an email asking me about a graph of Teton County, WY temperatures that appeared in an article from High Country News. The email was inquiring as to whether it matched the actual data from our local weather stations. After briefly studying the graph (seen below), I realized that it was constructed from what … Continue reading NOAA’s Climate Data doesn’t match the Real Data →

Jackson, Wyoming was not the only place in the West that experienced what was perhaps the weirdest winter ever. It wouldn’t matter if you have lived here only a few years or over 50 years, it was undoubtedly the weirdest due to the lack of snow in the valley and the unusually warm temperatures throughout … Continue reading The Weird Winter of 2025-26 →

Earth’s atmosphere is made up of many different kinds of gas, most are naturally occurring, some are added unnaturally. Some are considered greenhouse gasses, some are not. In this post I will break down the chemical make-up of the atmosphere that surrounds our globe and explain what effect some of these gasses have on temperatures … Continue reading Our Atmosphere has a Gas Problem →

The real significance of Groundhog Day, on February 2nd every year, is that it marks the halfway point of the Winter Season. It is the midway point between the Winter Solstice (Dec. 21) and the Spring Equinox (Mar. 20). Essentially, we have also reached the midway point of the ski season as well. The first … Continue reading Unusual 1st Half of Winter 2025-26 →

The weather we had in Jackson Hole in December 2025 can be summed up with the title of an old Clint Eastwood movie: “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”. Warm temperatures and rain in December are not the norm for Jackson Hole. But unusual weather patterns cause unusual weather, and that is what we … Continue reading Weirdest December Ever →

Jackson Hole just experienced one of its warmest and driest Novembers on record, with a persistent weather pattern throughout most of the month that left a Ridge of High pressure sitting over a good portion of the Western United States and the Northern Rockies. Few storm systems were able to penetrate this Ridge, the storms … Continue reading An Exceptionally Warm and Dry November →

Fall is upon us, with cooler temperatures and a little snow showing up in the mountains in early October. This is the time of year when our mindset begins making the transition from hiking, biking, boating, and fishing to thoughts of skiing, snowboarding, snow-machining, or heading south to a warmer climate. Given the change in … Continue reading Winter Outlook for 2025-26 →