At a Glance

With more than a week of summer still left to go, snow is blanketing some higher peaks of Utah, Wyoming, Montana and Colorado.This occurred mainly above 8,000-feet elevation.

Mother Nature is providing a winter tease in some areas this week. With more than a week of summer still left to go, some of the higher peaks of Utah and Wyoming are seeing their first snow of the season.

This , as the National Weather Service in Salt Lake City referred to it, brought a light accumulation of snow Tuesday morning at in the Uinta Mountains of northeastern Utah, about 50 miles east of Salt Lake City.

Wednesday morning, snow dusted the higher peaks at both and Park City, Utah.

Snow fell in the higher terrain of northern and western Wyoming into Wednesday.

Cooke City, Montana, located near Yellowstone National Park, measured an inch on Wednesday.

The snow likely won't last long. A warmup is in the forecast later this week.

September snow is common over the higher terrain of the Rockies.

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The village of Moose, Wyoming, located in Grand Teton National Park, averages 0.4 inches of snow each September.

Denver (Sept. 3, 1961) and Salt Lake City (Sept. 17, 1965) have picked up measurable snow in past Septembers.

Most lower elevations of the Rockies and High Plains typically see their by October.

November is the month this usually happens in much of the Midwest and Northeast, except along the Interstate 95 corridor, which typically waits for its first accumulating snow until December.