Snowstorm shuts off codi while it is nearly 60 and spring in Cheyenne – Cowboy State Daily

Monday’s time was a radically different experience at the opposite angles of Wyoming.

Cody residents woke up a few inches of snow in the city center. The high temperature during the day was 10 degrees with wind chops as much as minus 18.

Meanwhile, Cheen’s residents began their day with some spring in their footsteps, aided by the sunny sky and temperatures, pushing 60 until mid -afternoon.

The northwestern Wyoming should remain cold and snowy in the next few days, until Cheyenne will be more warmed and so much. For the Cowboy State Don Don Day meteorologist, it’s all in the daily work, while the battle of winter air masses is pushing over the state.

“Wyoming is affected by two completely separate air masses,” he said. “One is from Canada and one who is from the Pacific. Where they meet, it is where you get the action and so we received those impressive snow sums in North Wyoming. “

Snow

The forecasts for an extremely snowy weekend were brought out in the mountains of Western Wyoming. The Absaroka, Wind and Teton ranges, received between 15 and 36 inches of snow from Friday to Sunday, and up to 23 inches were reported in Yellowstone National Park.

“We still have some current light snow at the foot of codes that will be reduced by Monday afternoon,” said meteorologist Richard Low with the NWS National Meteorological Office office in River. “The next small system will bring more snow to Western Wyoming from Tuesday afternoon and overnight on Wednesday.”

Over the weekend, a massive cold front from Canada was confronted with a Pacific Moisture Pocket. This caused Subzero temperatures and significant snowfall in codies on Sunday and Monday, which was the biggest that the city had seen throughout the season.

Up to 60 inches of snow were reported at the highest points of tetons. Official measurements have not yet been made, but Lowe and day were sure that several feet of snow were accumulated in the Western Mountains.

“Jackson Hole’s ski area has 31 inches from Friday,” Day said. “The amounts always vary, but it seems that the area between Bondurant and Ponendale over 7000 feet is the worst amount of snow. And we get messages of up to 10 inches in codi and Powell on Monday. “

Write down the tops

Snow history cannot be different in the rest of Wyoming. While Jackson and Cody were buried in snow, Casper and Rock Springs broke their high temperature records on Sunday.

“Casper struck 57 on Sunday, breaking his record of 56, set in 1954,” Law said. “Rock Springs hit 49 by breaking its record from 48 in 2000”

Lowe said these high temperatures are caused by strong winds that pass through the Sweetwater and Fremont counts over the weekend. These winds were mixed with warmer air at height and forced it to the surface.

This discrepancy is not uncommon in Wyoming, even in the depths of winter. Lowe said record maximums are a direct result of the snow at higher hills.

“You can have different types of time for different parts of the state,” he said. “The Cold Front, which descended at the cody’s foot, trapped in the Bigorn pool, and everything in the south received all the winds and warmer temperatures.”

Some places received the worst of both winter conditions. In the South Pass, at least two feet of snow fell over the weekend, along with the gusts of wind up to 101 mph.

“It was brutal at South Pass this weekend and it’s still,” Dey said. “These strong winds of the streams competed from the Pacific right in the state.”

Airbattles Battle

Wyoming sits on the geographical merger, where the frigid Arctic air is mixed with warm Pacific moisture. A day he said that this “atmospheric river” determines where the winter time develops, falls and moves.

“This is a battle of the air masses,” he said. “The southern half of Wyoming had this very strong, humid Pacific jam flow wind from the north of Hawaii, bringing a seafood air mass into the country. At the same time, this Arctic air mass, sitting above Alberta, Saskatchevan and Montana, crept under this Pacific pipeline and rushed into this moisture. So you received this group of snow through northern Wyoming. “

The day resembles these interactions of a football match. Subzero Surges from January “creates the passage”, which has and will continue to manifest itself as waves of snow and subsequent temperatures over the next few weeks.

“You pick up the ball in the middle several times, then you throw it deep, so it’s like adjusting the pass,” he said. “What happens often is when you have a major explosion of the Arctic in January, it lays the basis of the powerful Pacific Stream Stream. There will always be an answer to these significant changes in the meteorological model. “

While these air masses are mixed, they also fight for supremacy. A day said that the rest of Wyoming’s winter will be determined from the back and back between the Arctic air and the Pacific moisture, and the time is determined by which system is strong enough to prevail.

“In the next five days it will be very light south and quite cold north,” he said. “Next week, Canada wins, so we’ll get a student’s overvoltage in the cold air, not overcome, not to the north. There will always be a backward swing back. “

Winter

If the first three days are any indications, February will be loaded for Wyoming. The next winter meteorological systems are already on the horizon.

“The next larger system, passing Thursday night on Friday, will be a little helpful for the eastern regions,” Law said. “We will start to see the chances of snow to increase and make it east of the continental division in the Vire River Basin and up to I-25.”

Another wave of Pacific Moisture will hit the western slopes of Wyoming on Thursday night, which will bring more snow to the highest points of the Teton range, absoro and wind. Day said the wave would “unlock” more Arctic air by lowering temperatures across the country.

“The air coming from the north of Hawaii is literally inserted into the mountains in small waves and each of these waves will bring heavy snow and winds with him,” he said. “The wind of the southern passage and other parts of the state will be a problem throughout the week, but the wind will be where it is warm.”

The main absorption is that there is a lot of winter time for Wyoming. This does not mean that it will be constantly cold and snowy, which is something that wants more Wyomingti to remember their winters.

“We do not live in the part of the world where cold air locks throughout the winter,” he said. “People tend to remember extreme cold events or extreme warm events and then believe that it is a whole winter season. But it is very typical of the back. “

The back and forth of warm and cold periods will continue when Wyoming reaches the second half of February and passes to March and April. This tumultuous model means that more time will turn through Wyoming in the coming weeks and months, wearing more snow, wind and suburo.

“It’s still in early February,” Law said. “There are many winter chances in our future.”

Andrew Rossi can be reached [email protected].