High Wind in Southwest Highlands, Idaho

High Wind March 16, 2025 · Southwest Highlands, Idaho

61 mph

Measured gust (53 kt)

What the National Weather Service wrote

Gusts in far southwest Idaho at Sho-Pai RAWS reached 53 knots (61 mph) during a several hour period of high winds. Sustained winds, during the same 1 hour period when maximum wind gusts were observed, were 36 knots (42 mph).

The wider storm

Pacific moisture, carried inland by extremely strong westerly winds aloft, dropped heavy snow on the Idaho mountains north of the Snake River Basin. The extreme winds mixed down to the surface in south-western Idaho, south of the area that received the heavy snowfall.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1245974. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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