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High Wind in Southern Hills-albion Mountains, Idaho
High Wind December 21, 2022 – December 22, 2022 · Southern Hills-albion Mountains, Idaho
What the National Weather Service wrote
The Cotton Ridge RAWS site recorded an 80 mph wind gust at 8:17 AM on the 21st. Gusts between 60 and 70 mph were widespread.
The wider storm
An extremely strong Pacific cold front brought wind gusts in the 50 to 80 mph range with localized blizzard conditions in the mountains and then extremely cold wind chills followed behind an arctic cold frontal passage. Snow amounts in the mountains were generally light and mainly in the 1 to 5 inch range but the combination with the wind brought many road closures to extreme eastern Idaho on the 21st into the 22nd. Some school closures occurred on the 21st and 22nd.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1071868. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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