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Winter Weather in Bighorn Mountains Southeast, Wyoming
Winter Weather October 8, 2017 · Bighorn Mountains Southeast, Wyoming
What the National Weather Service wrote
A 62 year old Kentucky woman died of hypothermia hiking in a snowstorm. Please see the episode for details.
The wider storm
A 62 year cold Kentucky woman and a 67 year old man from Montana entered a wilderness area in the Big Horn Mountains to set up camp on October 7th. The man decided head back to the camp on his own on October 8th. The man then became lost and was lost for a couple of days before finding his way out of the wilderness on October 9th. A search for the woman began on the evening of the 9th and her body was found on the morning of the 10th. The woman was attempting to hike out of the mountains to find help with her gear and was caught in a snowstorm. She died of hypothermia.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 721830. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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