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Brokeback Weather Alert - Snowfall Coming to Higher Mountains
Phillip Dampier:
ABSAROKA MOUNTAINS-BIGHORN MOUNTAINS SOUTHEAST- BIGHORN MOUNTAINS WEST- CASPER MOUNTAIN-CODY FOOTHILLS- EAST SWEETWATER COUNTY-FLAMING GORGE- GREEN MOUNTAINS AND RATTLESNAKE RANGE- JACKSON HOLE-LANDER FOOTHILLS- NATRONA COUNTY LOWER ELEVATIONS-NORTH BIG HORN BASIN- NORTHEAST JOHNSON COUNTY-OWL CREEK AND BRIDGER MOUNTAINS- ROCK SPRINGS AND GREEN RIVER-SALT RIVER AND WYOMING RANGES- SOUTH LINCOLN COUNTY- SOUTHEAST BIG HORN BASIN- SOUTHEAST JOHNSON COUNTY-SOUTHWEST BIG HORN BASIN-STAR VALLEY- TETON AND GROS VENTRE MOUNTAINS-UPPER GREEN RIVER BASIN- UPPER GREEN RIVER BASIN FOOTHILLS-UPPER WIND RIVER BASIN- WIND RIVER BASIN-WIND RIVER MOUNTAINS EAST- WIND RIVER MOUNTAINS WEST- YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK- 925 PM MDT WED SEP 13 2006
...MUCH COLDER AND WET WEATHER HEADED FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL WYOMING...
RECORD WARMTH WAS EXPERIENCED AT A FEW LOCATIONS IN WESTERN AND CENTRAL WYOMING ON WEDNESDAY. HOWEVER...THE WARM TEMPERATURES WILL COME TO AN ABRUPT END BY THIS WEEKEND. A POWERFUL STORM SYSTEM DEVELOPING OVER THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST WILL BEGIN TO SWING INTO THE INTERMOUNTAIN WEST AND TOWARD WYOMING THURSDAY. THIS SYSTEM WILL BRING UNSETTLED WEATHER TO THE AREA FRIDAY THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY.
TEMPERATURES ON FRIDAY WILL BE 15 TO 25 DEGREES COOLER THAN THOSE FELT ACROSS THE REGION ON WEDNESDAY. MUCH COLDER TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY FOLLOWING THE PASSAGE OF A STRONG COLD FRONT. TEMPERATURES THIS WEEKEND WILL BE 30 TO 40 DEGREES COLDER THAN READINGS EXPERIENCED ACROSS THE AREA ON WEDNESDAY.
THE BEST CHANCE FOR PRECIPITATION WILL OCCUR FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. THIS POTENT SYSTEM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE ACCUMULATING SNOW IN THE HIGH COUNTRY...WITH SNOW POSSIBLE IN SOME OF THE VALLEYS AND BASINS. THE PRECIPITATION WILL TAPER OFF SATURDAY NIGHT. SIGNIFICANT SNOWFALL OF 6 TO 12 INCHES IS POSSIBLE IN THE BIG HORN MOUNTAINS FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY.
HUNTERS...CAMPERS...HIKERS...AND ANYONE ELSE PLANNING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES IN THE MOUNTAINS OR YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK BEGINNING FRIDAY THROUGH THE WEEKEND SHOULD PREPARE FOR COLDER AND WET WEATHER. STAY TUNED FOR UPDATED FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS REGARDING THIS ABRUPT WEATHER CHANGE.
SFEnnisSF:
Uh-oh, time ta bring 'em down.
Bring 'em down? Why?
Storm movin' in from the Pacific, worse than this one.
But that snow barely stuck an hour? Hunh?
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: sfericsf on September 15, 2006, 12:18:43 am ---Uh-oh, time ta bring 'em down.
Bring 'em down? Why?
Storm movin' in from the Pacific, worse than this one.
But that snow barely stuck an hour? Hunh?
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Never mind them damn sheep. Long's it don't keep you from flyin' a Boston next week. ...
"J.N." ;D
Front-Ranger:
A little south of Wyoming, in the Colorado Rockies, the fourteeners have a magnificant white mantle now. I'll try to get a photo for you...
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on September 27, 2006, 06:47:48 pm ---A little south of Wyoming, in the Colorado Rockies, the fourteeners have a magnificant white mantle now. I'll try to get a photo for you...
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Uh, for the benefit of us ignorant Easterners, what's a "fourteener," please? ???
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