Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Kimball experienced some rather intense snow that began close to Christmas.
Chris Hammer, a forecaster at the National Weather Service in Cheyenne, said that Kimball received roughly five inches of snowfall and experienced temperatures that dropped below zero. The windchill in Kimball reached a low of about -40 degrees.
“The reason for the Christmas storm Kimball experienced was a Pacific storm that blew into the western United States,” Hammer said,
This storm that moved in brought in cold temperatures and all the snowfall that gave Kimball a white Christmas.
“The storm that blew in...