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Areas of Extreme Heat and Fire Weather in the Pacific Northwest; Heavy Rain in the West and South-central US

Extreme heat will continue across the Pacific Northwest into midweek before finally waning. Hot temperatures, dry, gusty conditions, and isolated dry thunderstorms will bring critical fire weather. Heavy rain and thunderstorms are expected across portions of the Southwest, the Sierras, and the central/southern Plains. A series of storms will bring heavy rain and strong winds to southern Alaska. Read More >

  Overview

March 26 - Bands of moderate to heavy snow developed over a cold front across central Wyoming Sunday evening.  The heaviest snow fell from the Wind River Basin northeast across Johnson County.  Widespread snowfall of 6-8 inches accumulated in these areas. An observer 27 miles south of Tensleep reported the highest storm total snowfall of 10 inches, Riverton reported 9.2" and both Hudson and Mayoworth came in with 8 inches.   

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Storm Total Snowfall for March 25-26, 2018.
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  Snow moving into Red Canyon (Hwy 28 - South Pass) area
Sunday evening.  South Pass reported 9 inches of snow Monday morning. 
 
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