Don’t like to read? You can now listen to MountainWeather’s Jackson Hole Forecast, anywhere, anytime. New audio version of the forecast is now available ………look for the audio button on the Jackson Hole Forecast page on both the main MountainWeather.com site and the mobile version of the website. Listen on your computer, or your smartphone, … Continue reading Listen to the Forecast →

Hope you enjoyed the Spring weather this week, back to Winter weather in the Pacific Northwest  & northern Rockies for Saint Patrick’s Day Weekend. The Ridge of High pressure that brought warm & dry weather this past week to the West & Rockies  gets flattened out and a Westerly flow develops from the Pacific Northwest … Continue reading Spring to Winter to Spring: Snow for St. Patty’s Day! →

As the old saying goes, “If March comes in like a Lion, it will go out like a Lamb”, and vice-versa. In other words, if the weather is winter-like and stormy to start the month, it will end with milder, more spring-like weather. Or, the opposite could be true, if it comes in like spring … Continue reading March 2013: Lion Rides in on a Lamb →

The Climate Prediction Center or “CPC” (a division of NOAA and the National Weather Service) is responsible for producing our long-range outlooks. For the next three months they are showing that the Pacific Northwest will be about the only place in the USA that has a good probability of experiencing below normal temps. Nowhere in … Continue reading Second Half of Winter Outlook →

Saturday February 2nd, 2013 is Groundhog’s Day! A very important day to a weather person! Groundhog’s Day really has nothing to do with a rodent seeing his shadow, and in the Rocky Mountains it would be rare to not have at least six more weeks of winter. The real significance of Groundhog’s Day is that … Continue reading It’s Groundhog’s Day! →

Finally some warmer temps and a little fresh snow on Thursday. And it looks like more snow will be possible for Jackson Hole over the weekend, especially on Sunday. I like the way things look to be shaping up. After a long period of High & Dry & Cold in early January, the changes are … Continue reading Welcome Changes in the Weather →

Merry Christmas! The Wx Access Map for Jackson Hole (Wx is shorthand for Weather, by the way) is designed so that you can access both current weather observations and forecasted weather for specific locations in the Grand Teton & Yellowstone Park region. The coverage area on this particular map, if you scroll out, extends from … Continue reading The Weather Access Map for Jackson Hole →

Today is the Winter Solstice, as the Winter Season officially began here in the Rocky Mountain time zone at 4:12 a.m. this morning. And so far at least, the World hasn’t ended today! Also thought of as the “shortest day of the year”, our shortest days actually last about a week. The length of day … Continue reading Winter Solstice & White Christmas →

With only a few days left until the official start of Winter on December 21st (or the end of the World, as the Mayans are calling for!), we are already well into the Winter Season with plenty of snow around Jackson Hole to guarantee a White Christmas for the valley. In the mountains, there is … Continue reading A Good Snow & Blow Session in Mid-December →

Below is the Updated graph of settled snow depths at Rendezvous Bowl as of Saturday morning December 8th 2012. Compared to average and year’s past. This is the deepest snowpack at this location on this date in the last 15 years! Posted by meteorologist Jim Woodmencey