Temperatures Drop to 34 Degrees as Wyoming Gets Summer Snow

As the temperature drops to as low as 34 degrees Fahrenheit, a town in Wyoming is covered in "Summer Snow."

Even though autumn doesn't officially start until September 22 at 9:03 PM EDT, it may already be winter in some parts of the west of the US. At least, that's how it appeared on Friday morning.

The beginning of the new school year, the NFL's new season, and the widespread availability of pumpkin spice lattes are all indications that autumn is quickly approaching. However, some areas of the conterminous United States experienced their preview of winter on Friday morning.

Summer Snow

According to the Riverton office of the National Weather Service office, Wyoming, snow began to fall in some areas of Wyoming late Thursday night through early Friday. This is the first snow of the winter season in Wyoming. Experts also say that it was just more than a few snow flurries.

The accumulating snow at Powder River Pass located in northern Wyoming had nearly completely covered the road. The pass rises to a height of 9,666 feet in the Bighorn Mountains, which are in the state's north-central region.

On Friday morning, snowfall was still evident across the region on AccuWeather radar by mid-morning, though it was mingling with rain in some places.

At a weather station in Wyoming's South Pass, which is situated in the west-central area of Wyoming at an elevation of 8,491 feet, snowflakes were also recorded. The visibility dropped to less than half a mile at one point.

Early on Friday morning, temperatures in the areas of snowfall fell dipped into the lower 40s F, with lows in the 30s F. The temperature was 34 degrees Fahrenheit in Atlantic City, Wyoming, which is close to Powder River Pass, while it was 79 degrees Fahrenheit in the more well-known beach town of Atlantic City, New Jersey.

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The chilly foreshadowing extended beyond Wyoming.

In Glacier National Park, the popular Going-to-the-Sun Road did not have any sunshine when early-risers took the drive to the top. Instead, they encountered a snowy, foggy morning.

At a height of 6,646 feet, some of the parked cars at the Logan Pass Visitor Center was also blanketed in snow.

Snow accumulation in the northern Rockies in September is not entirely unheard of and serves as a reminder that the cold and snowy winter season is just around the corner.

Before the start of the meteorological winter, which begins on December 1, some widespread snow is possible, according to AccuWeather's long-range forecasters. The official US winter forecast from AccuWeather will be made public on Wednesday, September 28, AccuWeather reports.

Sunny and Partly Cloudy

According to forecast data from The Weather Channel, the next ten days are going to be sunny and partly cloudy. Temperatures are seen to raise from the 40s to the 70s.

Hazardous Weather Outlook

The National Weather Service for Riverton issued a Hazardous Weather Outlook as Western and Central Wyoming as light freeze and heavy frost is expected.

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