Everyone Has Winter But Wyoming, WHY?

Blizards to the east of us. Heavy snow and rain to our west. So why are Wyoming and other Western states still in this weather block? When will it end?

There has been considerable head-scratching in our region over the mild temperatures, lack of snow, and high winds of the past few weeks. But all of this has happened before. It's nothing new. It doesn't happen often.

Look at the weather map below and notice the high-pressure system sitting right over our area. Now look at the high pressure parked over the Aleutian Islands near Alaska. Look at that other high-pressure system parked over Greenland, to your right.

The positions of those highs and lows are bowing the jet stream around us. It is winter on all sides, but winter is going around us.

We have been stuck in this pattern for over a month, and nothing is expected to change for at least the next week, or maybe two.

Forecasters had called for winter to have arrived by now, but as we can see, and they admit, they were wrong. Even the computer modeling was wrong. Those highs and lows have set up a blocking pattern that was not expected.

At some point, these systems will weaken, and the dam will break, sending winter our way. But it is not known when exactly that is going to happen. Soon, we hope.

Wyoming is right on the edge of the block. That's why the Tetons and Yellowstone have experienced plenty of snow, but it just can't seem to make it to the rest of the state.