Powerful Pacific System Impacting the West; First Significant Snow for Portions of the East

Power Pacific system will continue to bring significant impacts for Pacific Northwest into northern California the remainder of the week. Dangerous coastal affects, heavy rain, flooding, strong winds, and higher elevation mountain snow continues. Meanwhile, a storm across the east is set to bring the first accumulating snow to many higher elevations of the Catskills into the central Appalachians. Read More >

Very Strong to Damaging winds expected over portions of north-central Wyoming tonight.

Peak wind gusts of 55 to 70 mph are expected across portions of north-central Wyoming tonight. The strongest winds are anticipated to occur during the overnight hours. Winds will generally be from the southwest or west, causing an extreme blow over risk for high profile or light-weight vehicles especially on north to south oriented roadways, including Highway 120.

Here are wind gust reports from the last 24 hours ending around 9:15am today (February 19th).

Here is our most recent graphics created about the ongoing weather situation:


Current High Wind Warning locations. Click to Enlarge	Forecast Maximum Wind Gusts through Saturday morning. Wind gusts over 60 MPH are expected. Click to Enlarge

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Powerful Pacific System Impacting the West; First Significant Snow for Portions of the East

High Wind Expected Tonight