Dec 29, 2017
A stationary front fed by a rich plume of Pacific moisture followed by the passage of a surface low pressure brought heavy snow to the mountains and valleys of north Idaho beginning on the 28th of December and continuing through the 30th. As the surface low pressure approached a tongue of warm air aloft produced freezing rain in addition to snow in the Coeur D'Alene area. The warm front never migrated any farther north and the mountains and valleys of the northern Idaho Panhandle received heavy
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 725865). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Latah County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.