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Mid October Snowfall Recap

October 19-20^th - A strong mid-October storm system pushed slowly onto the west coast on Tuesday and into the intermountain west by Tuesday night.  Snow developed across the western Wyoming mountains, generally above 9500 ft on Tuesday night and continued sporadically through the day Wednesday, before tapering off Wednesday night.  In elevations between 7500 ft and 9500 ft, a combination of rain and heavy wet snow fell throughout the period.  In area basins (including the lower Green River Basin, southernmost Lincoln county, and the Star Valley) precipitation fell in the form of rain.  The only outlier to the preceding conditions occurred in the Jackson Valley, where temperatures remained cool enough for snow to fall into elevations below 7500 ft.  Since temperatures generally hovered at freezing or slightly above, the following snowfall amounts were estimated using precipitation amounts.