by meteorologist Jim Woodmencey
Welcome to Winter! The Solstice was December 21st, 2018, at 3:23 pm MST. One cool feature of this year’s Solstice is a full moon, or almost full. The peak of that full moon is on Saturday, Dec. 22nd. Scroll down to see updated snow accumulation forecasts for Christmas. Snow on Ground This year on the … Continue reading The Solstice, Santa & Snow
The Climate Prediction Center, CPC for short, since late this past summer has maintained a pattern of keeping the Pacific Northwest and northern Rockies under the category of “Equal Chances”, for having above normal or below normal precipitation during the winter months os 2018-19. That covers the three-month period, December through February. This same trend … Continue reading Updated Winter Outlook
Finally, a change in the weather pattern after a week of High-pressure for Jackson Hole and a good portion of the Northwestern U.S. A cold Low-pressure system is moving into the Pacific Northwest today (Tuesday December 11, 2018). This will bring significant snow & wind to the Cascades & southern BC today & tonight. That … Continue reading Fresh Snow Coming
Some Snow for the Tetons Total snow accumulations predicted for today (Friday) thru Saturday morning for the Teton mountains are between 6 and 10 inches. See map below from the NAM model run by NexLab. Click on the next map to see a loop of accumulating snow from 8 am today thru Noon Saturday, from … Continue reading Snow: First Days of December
Low pressure systems out in the Gulf of Alaska and along the West Coast will bring moisture inland across the Western United States on Thanksgiving Day and into the weekend. Expect some decent snow accumulations from the higher Cascades and Sierra Nevada Mountains to the Tetons of Wyoming & Wasatch of Utah and also into … Continue reading Thanksgiving Weekend Snow
A pretty good flow of Pacific moisture will be blowing inland across the Pacific Northwest this weekend, with progressively cooling temperatures (Nov. 3 & 4). Best shot of snow looks like it will come right at Northwest Wyoming Sunday & Sunday night. Map below shows the nose of the jet stream at 250mb or 35,000-ft. … Continue reading More Snow for the Mountains
Jackson Hole received some new snow, down to the valley floor, last night (October 29th) with some decent accumulation up in the Teton Mountains. There was about a half an inch in the Town of Jackson and up to 4 inches reported in Kelly, Wyoming. Up at elevation, between the 8,000 & 10,000-ft. elevation, new … Continue reading Snow for Halloween 2018
The next few days look to be colder and a bit snowy for parts of Wyoming, northern Utah and Colorado. Central Idaho’s mountains had theirs today for the most part, as a cold upper level Low-pressure moved over Idaho and then stats to sag south into Utah. See snowfall accumulation forecasts below. Scroll down to … Continue reading Snow Forecast: Oct. 9 to 12, 2018
Winter Weather comes to Wyoming this weekend. With a relatively large and cold Low pressure system moving into the Rockies on Saturday, then hanging out over the Central Rockies Sunday into Monday. This will create an “upslope” flow pattern against the Continental Divide. … Continue reading Snow for Columbus Day Weekend
(Note: This article first appeared in the August 29, 2018 Issue of the JH News & Guide.) It has almost become a tradition in this column to talk about the coming winter’s weather, before summer is over. You might ask, why so early and who cares, it is only the last week of August? Local … Continue reading The Very Early Winter Outlook…..