Finally, a little white for the valley in early December. It is amazing the difference we are seeing between the upper elevations and the valley floor this early winter season. At the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort at the bottom of Rendezvous Bowl (around 9500-ft.) there was 52 inches of settled snow depth on December 7th. … Continue reading Mountain Snowdepths Above Normal →

It’s Thanksgiving, and technically Winter is still a month away. And the weather pattern that would bring winter on in full is still not quite there yet for the Rockies. Lots of snow the last few days in the Cascades, where cold air and the jet stream have been hanging out. And a  little new … Continue reading The Jet Stream Dictates our Weather →

A cold low pressure system brought us almost a foot of new snow in the mountains up at around 10,000-ft. in the Tetons over the last 24-hours, and this would certainly qualify as our first good snowfall of the season. It also looks like we had about ¾ of an inch of water in the … Continue reading First Snow & Winter Outlook Update →

Cold Canadian air pushed down through Wyoming on Wednesday, with high temperatures almost 20 degrees cooler in Jackson Hole than they were the day before, on Tuesday. Highs in Jackson Tuesday were in the lower 70’s, on Wednesday we were in the low to mid 50’s. Low temps this morning (Wed. Oct. 4th)  changed even … Continue reading Cold Air Wake Up Call →

Cold air pushing down through Montana this morning, with snow down along the east side of the Continental Divide down to fairly low elevations, like around Pendroy, MT located northwest of Great Falls and just east of the Rockies ( Web cam pic below). US Hwy 89 Near Pendroy, MT And snowing down into Southwest … Continue reading First Blast of Cold Canadian Air →

This past Saturday, September 22nd, was the Autumnal Equinox and the official end of summer and start of the Fall Season. Almost as if on cue, good fall colors can be seen over the Rocky Mountain West. This last week in September and the first week in October seem to be normal timing for peak … Continue reading Fall Colors on Schedule →

If you are really into the weather and especially weather related to fire behavior, you can follow along more closely with information posted on the NWS Riverton website page that was set up to assist the fire weather forecasters working the Little Horsethief Wildfire near Jackson,WY. Main link is here: NWS Horsethief Fire pageI will … Continue reading Horsethief Fire Weather Page →

Photos below show the quick progression of the Horsethief / Wilson Canyon Fire as it blew up on Sunday afternoon, between 2:00 pm & 3:15 pm. Most of these photos were taken from the ridge on Munger Mountain, along the Wally’s World Trail. Munger Mountain is located to the Southwest of the fire.  This series … Continue reading Fire Weather & Air Quality →

With temps near 90 degrees the last two days in Jackson Hole it is hard to even think about snow and the coming Winter Season. But it happens every year in late August, the questions begin as to, “What kind of winter are we going to have?” With the start of the Fall Season still … Continue reading Winter Weather Outlook 2012-13 →

Late afternoon and early evening (between about 4:30 and 8:30 pm) on Friday July 27th there were some very cool looking cumulus clouds associated with thunderstorms around the Tetons & the Jackson Hole area. Most of these would be classified as Cumulonimbus Mammatus Clouds. That is, they were of “cumulo-form” (tall & puffy)…… They produced … Continue reading Cool Cumulus Clouds →