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Summer Begins Wet and Cool across Western and Central Wyoming

June 26, 2003 -  An unusually strong early summer low pressure system with origins in the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska, dumped over an inch of rain across a large swath of Wyoming.  The storm begin to spin up rain across the southwest on June 21st with snow falling in parts of the western mountains and Yellowstone National Park.  The  cold low pressure center moved across Wyoming on June 23rd and 24th spreading much needed rainfall across the state.   In the mountains, the precipitation fell as snow above 8000 feet with some locations reporting over one foot of wet snow.    

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