After a nice warm and dry start to the normally wet and cool month of May, we are back to a cool and showery weather pattern for the Memorial Day Weekend in the Rockies. At least through Sunday, rain or snow showers are to be expected each day here in Jackson Hole, with highs only … Continue reading Summer Weather Outlook →

For the past two weeks, during part of my “Spring Break”, I was involved with teaching avalanche and weather forecasting courses to military meteorologists here in Jackson Hole. I spent last week with the US Air Force’s 10thCombat Weather Squadron, based out of Hurlburt Field in Florida. The week before, I was with the US … Continue reading Avalanche & Weather Forecasting for Military Meteorologists →

Sunday morning’s snow was kind of a cruel April Fools joke, especially after the nice afternoon we had on Saturday, the last day of March! High temperatures on Saturday in Jackson Hole topped out at 63 degrees. The high Sunday afternoon was 43 degrees. Courtesy of a cold front that went through overnight Saturday night. … Continue reading April Weather See-Saw →

Tuesday, March 20th……..Welcome to the First Day of Spring 2012! Today is also the day that MountainWeather.com launches the mobile version of the website. Created and developed for MountainWeather by Gliffen Designs of Jackson Hole, the same great web folks who designed the new version of the main MountainWeather.com site a little over a year … Continue reading New mountainweather.com MOBILE site →

Wednesday, Feb. 29th, 2012……………A nice combination of features on the weather maps today, all lining up to become a good dump-producer for Jackson Hole & the Tetons today. And then Swinging south over Utah and Colorado tonight & Thursday.Low pressure center at the surface over the Northwestern US today, this will be moving across the … Continue reading Good Dump Producer →

We have had a lot to make up for with snowfall this winter, with a slow start to the season. Snow storms have been fewer and farther between than last winter, but this past week’s snowfall has almost caught us up to where we should be this time of year. It has generally been a … Continue reading Snowfall Playing Catch-up and Gaining! →

Surprisingly, we have managed to pick up roughly 20 inches of new snow in the Teton Mountains since Valentine’s Day (Totals for Feb. 13 thru 19) with weak Low pressure systems wandering around the Western U.S. While we have spent the better part of the last 3 weeks without a significant jet stream flow over … Continue reading Northwesterly Flow or a “Dirty Ridge” →

It’s Groundhog’s Day! Perhaps the most “celebrated” weather day of the year….but it really has less to do about the groundhog and more to do about the fact that February 2nd is the midway point of the Winter Season. According to folklore, if the day is sunny and the groundhog (otherwise known as a woodchuck … Continue reading Groundhog’s Day →

A steady and sometimes powerful Westerly flow brought the bulk of the snowfall between Wednesday January 18th and Saturday January 21st , 2012. Storm totals for the entire 7-day period from last Monday morning, January 16th thru this Monday January 23rd 2012 were pretty impressive, with around two feet of snow falling in the valley … Continue reading This January Storm Cycle →

We haven’t really seen much change in the weather pattern over the Western United States over the last 8-weeks, with the exception the New Year’s Weekend storm. But, it finally, it looks like we’ll see some changes beginning next week. First indications that a strong Westerly flow will develop from the eastern Pacific across the … Continue reading Snow in the Future →