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Winter Weather in Southern Clearwater Mountains, Idaho
Winter Weather May 16, 2026 – May 19, 2026 · Southern Clearwater Mountains, Idaho
What the National Weather Service wrote
At Red River Hot Springs, 4 to 7 inches of snow fell coating the roads with snow. Snow fell again on Sunday morning, May 17, with the Mountain Meadows SNOTEL (6360 feet) recording 0.70 inches of Snow Water Equivalent, equating to 4 to 6 inches of snowfall. Sub-freezing mornings followed through May 19.
The wider storm
An unseasonably cold upper-level trough, originally an Aleutian Low/Gulf of Alaska low, sagged south over the Pacific Northwest and Northern Rockies and brought a prolonged period of late-season winter weather, including accumulating mountain snow and unseasonably cold temperatures leading to frost and hard freezes across north-central Idaho.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1329751. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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