Fire Weather Concerns in the Southern Plains and Southeast; Pacific System to Bring Unsettled Weather to the West Coast

Gusty winds and dry conditions will continue to bring elevated to critical fire weather conditions to the southern Plains and Southeast early this week. A Pacific storm system will bring low elevation rain and heavy high elevation mountain snow to northern and central California through early week, expanding into the Pacific Northwest, Great Basin, and southern California on Tuesday. Read More >

Thanksgiving Climatology for Eastern Utah and Western Colorado

*Please note that 1919 brought an intense snowstorm to eastern Utah and western Colorado. However, some of our stations have not been around since 1919, so the "snowiest" Thanksgiving listed below is only since records were kept for those sites*

Let's take a look back at Thanksgivings past with some "Stuffed Stats" (aka Thanksgiving Climatology). By far the most impressive Thanksgiving took place on November 27, 1919 when an intense snowstorm dropped in from the northwest into eastern Utah and western Colorado. That storm produced record 24-hour snowfall totals for several of our climate sites including 14 inches in Grand Junction!

For more climate information from other sites, please visit our climate page on our website at https://www.weather.gov/wrh/climate?wfo=gjt. You can also follow us on Facebook (@NWSGrandJunction) or Twitter (@nwsgjt).

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