Heavy Snow in Sawtooth-stanley Basin, Idaho

Heavy Snow January 27, 2021 – January 30, 2021 · Sawtooth-stanley Basin, Idaho

What the National Weather Service wrote

An estimated 40 inches of snow fell at the Vienna Mine SNOTEL site.

The wider storm

A very strong atmospheric river event brought very heavy snow to the southeast Idaho mountains and the Sun Valley region. Amounts of over 2 feet of snow were very common in the drawn out event. 51 inches of snow fell at Bald Mountain at the Sun Valley ski resort and the resort shut down January 29th after several avalanches and the death of a skier.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 937294. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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