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Regional Outbreaks of Severe Weather Through Early Next Week; Early Season Heat Wave across the South

Active spring pattern across the center of our nation with several episodes of severe weather and heavy rainfall expected into next week. The potential for very large hail, long track tornadoes, severe wind gusts, frequent cloud to ground lightning strikes and flash flooding are in the outlook. Furthermore, dangerous early season heat wave continues for the Gulf Coast states into early next week. Read More >

  Overview

December 17, 2017  A cold front spread light snow across west and central Wyoming Saturday morning. Strong winds preceded the cold front on Friday; an automated observation site south of Clark recorded a wind gust of 86 mph at 715 am on Friday.  Storm total snowfall amounts from Saturday and Saturday night generally ranged from 1 to 4 inches across the area.  The highest amounts reported were 6 inches near Bedford and on the west side of the Bighorn Mountains. 

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Map of Storm Total Snowfall for December 16-17, 2017 (click to enlarge)
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Snow picking up at the Riverton Weather Office at 615 pm Saturday.  Most of the 2.7" storm total snowfall at the office accumulated Saturday evening between 6 pm and 10 pm. Around 2 inches of new snow in Basin
(Photo credit: Marilyn Wegweiser)
Fresh snow (and rabbit tracks) atop Sinks Canyon overlooking the Wind River Basin
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