Idaho Daily Snow
By Coleen Haskell, Meteorologist Posted 6 years ago September 22, 2017
Fall Begins with a Taste of Winter
Summary
What a nice way to round out the last week Summer with a taste of Winter for our Ida”Snow” ski areas. This week brought the first snowfall of the season across the state beginning on Tuesday and several more reruns through today. Our neighbors in the Tetons and Bitterroot Ranges further east saw a couple feet of snow that closed mountain passes and delighted snow lovers. Overall, what became the season ending event for our mountain wildfires, is now the season starting event to re-charge the soil moistures. Unfortunately, this pattern won’t last because a warming trend is on the way for next week.
Short Term Forecast
Winter Teaser Photo courtesy Visit Sun Valley
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Today through Sunday
It’s not unusual for us to get snow in September, but this system has hung around quite a while and brought several days of mountain snow showers down below the 6,000-foot level, which IS pretty low for the early season.
The storm will exit the region this weekend, making way for a warming and drying period next week. Here is today’s view from
GOES-West Water Vapor Satellite Imagery, Courtesy NOAA
Next Week
The switch is going to flip by early next week, back toward weather that is more typical of early Fall thanks to a ridge of high pressure that will build over the western U.S. This will bring mountain temperatures back into the 50s and 60s each afternoon. This pattern will stick around for a while due to a stalling trough over the south-central U.S. Our friends in the Rockies will continue to get high mountain snowfall but the west will be dry.
GFS Ensemble (GEFS) Forecast of Upper-Level Weather Features
Friday, September 22 through Sunday, October 1, Courtesy TropicalTidbits.com
Extended Forecast
October Preview
Here’s how the monthly outlook is shaping up from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. There is
NOAA’s Courtesy Climate Prediction Center October Outlook
Temperatures (Above Normal in Orange) and
Precipitation (Above Normal in Green)
I’ll be updating the Idaho forecast weekly, but for a bigger picture look, please refer to:
https://opensnow.com/dailysnow/usandcanada
Thank you for Reading!
Coleen
Announcements
Tomorrow evening: Teton Gravity Research “Rogue Elements” Ski and Snowboard Film Premiere at Boise’s Egyptian theater.
https://www.tetongravity.com/films/rogue-elements/tour/boise-premiere-of-rogue-elements
Through September 30: Bogus Basin Season Pass Deal https://secure.bogusbasin.org/passes/ItemList.aspx?node_id=1147855
Saturday, October 14: Sun Valley Opera House film: Good Company’s: “Guest List”
http://news.lineskis.com/2017/08/17/good-company-presents-guest-list/