A strong system brought widespread snow to the Idaho Panhandle for several days.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS OTX wrote it up.
A strong system brought widespread snow to the Idaho Panhandle for several days.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Spokane, WA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Dec 8, 10:53 AM PST, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Spokane WA
1053 AM PST Thu Dec 8 2022
.SYNOPSIS...
A weather system will produce widespread snow across the majority
of the Inland Northwest. More snow will be likely Friday night
into Saturday. Next week will feature very cold temperatures
across the Inland Northwest.
&&
.DISCUSSION...
Update: Winter weather advisories were adjusted earlier this
morning to account for an earlier start time, mostly for the
Okanogan highlands and the Upper Columbia Basin, otherwise snow
in store for most locations today and tonight. /Pelatti
&&
.AVIATION...
18Z TAFs: Weather system spreading snow west to east bringing IFR
ceilings and visibilities with the snow. TAF sites such as will
see such snow til about 00Z Friday with KGEG starting to see such
conditions near 21Z Today. Back edge of this weather system will
pass from west to east in similar fashion decreasing the chances
of further snowfall near 5Z latest for KEAT and 10Z for KGEG and
points south. Some fog and low cloud formation producing IFR/MVFR
ceilings and visibilities after 10Z Friday is definitely possible.
/Pelatti
&&
.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
Spokane 32 24 31 22 36 26 / 90 100 10 40 90 50
Coeur d'Alene 33 27 32 22 36 28 / 60 90 20 20 80 50
Pullman 32 25 32 22 36 26 / 20 80 20 30 70 30
Lewiston 36 29 38 28 43 32 / 20 60 10 30 50 30
Colville 32 18 30 18 34 23 / 80 80 0 40 90 50
Sandpoint 32 27 31 24 32 28 / 60 100 30 30 90 70
Kellogg 34 29 31 24 36 30 / 20 90 50 20 80 60
Moses Lake 29 16 29 22 36 24 / 70 60 0 80 80 30
Wenatchee 26 18 26 22 32 26 / 30 20 0 100 80 30
Omak 27 16 26 21 33 27 / 30 20 0 80 90 40
&&
.OTX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
ID...Winter Weather Advisory until noon PST Friday for Central
Panhandle Mountains-Coeur d'Alene Area-Idaho Palouse-
Northern Panhandle.
WA...Winter Weather Advisory until noon PST Friday for Northeast
Mountains-Spokane Area-Washington Palouse.
Winter Weather Advisory until 4 AM PST Friday for Okanogan
Highlands-Upper Columbia Basin.
&&The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Observer reported 6.2 inches of snow Northeast of Athol. Other reports in North ID ranged from 6 to 8 inches.
Observer reported 7.8 inches of snow south of Huetter.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Idaho in 2022Every state in 2022This day in weather historyWarnings in Idaho, December 2022
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1073246, 1073248.