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    Alta, WY · 42°F

    How much snow does Alta, Wyoming get?

    Wednesday. The flakes have a date.

    Clouds now. Clouds and snow Wednesday, low 28°F.

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    Snow in the next 5 days

    • Satclouds45° / 29°
    • Sunclouds46° / 22°
    • Monclouds49° / 34°
    • Tueclouds47° / 33°
    • Wedclouds and snow38° / 28°

    Snow’s booked for Alta on Wednesday, and the sky looks smug about it.

    Live 5-day forecast and current temperature from OpenWeatherMap, refreshed about every half hour. Winter warnings from the National Weather Service.

    A typical winter

    Snow a year
    113 in
    Days with 1 in or more
    38
    Winter high
    30°F
    Winter low
    12°F
    First freeze
    Sep 11
    Last freeze
    Jun 14
    Nights at 32°F or below
    204
    Dec, Jan, Feb snow
    21.7, 21.7, 16.2 in

    December is usually the snowiest of the three winter months here, with about 22 inches.

    The first fall freeze usually comes around Sep 11 and the last spring one around Jun 14, which leaves about 89 days without a freeze.

    A typical winter day runs from about 12°F to 30°F, and the low gets down to 32°F or colder on about 204 nights a year.

    Towns with about the same snow

    More towns in Wyoming

    • Chugwater: about 70 inches of snow a year
    • Laramie: about 64 inches of snow a year
    • Gillette: about 56 inches of snow a year
    • Midwest: about 46 inches of snow a year
    • Cody: about 45 inches of snow a year

    More about the weather around here

    Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991 to 2020, co-op station USC00480140 at Alta. Winter means December to February, and the freeze dates are the median dates of the first and last 32°F night.