(Fremont County, WY) – County 10 meteorologist Dave Lipson has shared that today, May 21, is shaping up to be a chilly wet day with much needed precipitation, with the cooler air in place from last night’s cold front and a strong trough of low pressure pushing in slowly from the west.
Lipson says that we will see rain for much of the day, with the Lander foothills receiving as much as one quarter to one half inch of much needed rainfall. The high temperature will be 45 to 50 degrees, and we can expect blustery north winds of 15 to 25 miles per hour, with gusts of 35, to develop by afternoon.
Snow will fall in the mountains mainly above 7,000 feet for much of the day today as well. Snowfall amounts by day’s end should range from around an inch at Beaver Rim, one to three inches in Sinks Canyon, three to five inches on South Pass and along Loop Road above Lander, and we could see as much as up to seven inches of new snow above 9,500 feet along the highest point on Loop Road near Blue Ridge, and up to seven inches of snow could fall on Togwotee Pass.
Tonight, rain and snow will taper off before midnight followed by clearing skies. Patchy fog will likely form late low in the low 30s and will have north winds of 15 to 25 miles per hour diminishing after midnight.