“It’s very hard to get blizzard conditions in mountain valleys. Jackson Hole is a fairly large valley, but even still, it’s not connected to the larger air masses sliding down from Canada over the Great Plains. There are enough mountains around that slow that air down.”
Jackson hasn’t seen an official blizzard since 1996. A National Weather Service meteorologist explains why.
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