Heavy Snow — South Central Highlands, Idaho

2016-01-28 to 2016-01-30 · South Central Highlands, Idaho

Event narrative

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.

Wider weather episode

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_id 614982. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.