Severe Windstorm Affects Reporter Country

On December 17 and 18, much of Reporter Country including the states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and even North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, and Nebraska experienced a severe, widespread Chinook wind event with National Weather Service reporting gusts up to 144 mph on Mount Coffin in Wyoming. Meteorologist Brian Bledsoe with Brian Bledsoe Weather described this type of event occurring when powerful, jet stream energy from the Pacific Ocean comes in contact with higher terrain and interacts with the surface. This transfer from the jet stream to the surface “allows those really high-end gusts to not just come down in...

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