Heavy Snow in South Central Highlands, Idaho

Heavy Snow January 28, 2016 – January 30, 2016 · South Central Highlands, Idaho

What the National Weather Service wrote

SNOTEL amounts were 15 inches at Bostetter Ranger Station, 21 inches at Howell Canyon, 10 inches at Magic Mountain, and 9 inches at Oxford Springs.

The wider storm

A very powerful Pacific storm brought several hours of snow to high elevations of southeast Idaho. Many amounts of over 10 inches were recorded. It started out a warm system with high freezing levels but after extensive rain, even valley locations received snow accumulations in the 1 to 5 inch range after cold frontal passage late on the 29th and early on the 30th.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 614982. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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