Snow, snow, and more snow.
TONIGHT: Snow showers will be present throughout the Tetons, western WY, central ID, and the southeastern Idaho highlands through the night tonight. Valleys should mostly remain clear for the night. Winds will continue to be quite breezy between 15-20 mph with gusts getting up to 30 mph. Low temperatures should only get down to the upper 20's and lower 30's for the early morning on Thursday.
TOMORROW: More widespread heavy snow showers will blanket the entire region from the early morning hours to the early afternoon. We could see some rain showers mixed in with the snow for the valleys especially later in the day. Isolated snow showers will continue into tomorrow night as well, but will be less numerous. Winds will persist between 15-25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph. High temperatures get up to the lower to upper 30's for the day.
LONG TERM: There appears to be no end in sight to the snow showers as the snow should continue to come down for the next eight consecutive days. Besides Thursday, another heavier snow day should be on Monday, but overall moderate snowfall should continue over the next week. Snowfall totals after Monday appears to be about a half a foot in the valleys and up to two feet in the more mountainous regions. Windy conditions will keep on coming all the way until at least Tuesday with winds continuing to be between 15-25 mph with gusts much greater than that. During that duration, high temperatures slowly decrease into Christmas with highs in the low 30's. After that day, high's keep on decreasing with high's getting down to the 20's for Sunday and possibly into the teens by the middle of next week.
WATCHES/WARNINGS:
WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM THIS EVENING TO 11 PM
MST THURSDAY for the Central Mountains from the Stanley area south to Hailey.
WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM THURSDAY TO 5 AM MST
FRIDAY for Centennial and Big Hole Mountains from Targhee Pass
south to Pine Creek Pass.
WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON THURSDAY TO 11 PM MST
FRIDAY for Idaho portion of the northern Wasatch Range including
Emigration Summit.
WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO
11 PM MST FRIDAY for Yellowstone National Park, Teton and Gros Ventre
Mountains, Wind River Mountains West, Salt River and Wyoming
Ranges, Upper Green River Basin Foothills, Jackson Hole, and Star Valley
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM THURSDAY TO 5 AM
MST FRIDAY for Caribou Highlands including Wayan, Swan Valley, Teton Valley including Driggs, Blackfoot Mountains
including Bone, and the Bear Lake Valley including Montpelier.
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM TO 11 PM MST
THURSDAY for Highway 20 from Carey to Howe and the Lost River valley
and range, including Carey, Arco, Howe, Mackay, and the western
portions of the INL.
AN AIR QUALITY ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED BY THE IDAHO
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY for Franklin County.
