Grand Teton National Park Weather

The Grand Teton National Park weather is notorious for surprise attacks and severe lightning. The three factors that control weather are air pressure, air temperature and humidity. Grand Teton National Park weather is extreme at times. This extremity is caused by a triple whammy from the three controls on the weather.
Air pressure is affected by two factors. High elevations create low pressures yet cold air is denser, so it can have higher air pressure. Winds are created when the warm or cold air with higher density moves into the low-density area that is in the highest altitudes. This shift often happens in the afternoon when Grand Teton National Park's weather regularly makes sudden changes.
Air temperature is the more obvious one of the three. It gets colder at night and in the winter. The sun mostly drives air temperature. A unique Grand Teton National Park weather detail is the drastic day to night temperature changes in the summer months when most visitors come to the park. A normal summer day is in the mid-'70s, yet a normal summer night is in the '30s. This temperature shift accounts for more of the drastic Grand Teton National Park weather.
The third factor for weather creation is humidity. Cold air cannot hold as much humidity as warm air. High altitude clouds are very cold and may contain ice crystals. They may also be mostly devoid of humidity. The result of a storm in Grand Teton National Park can be violent winds with lightning with or without ice crystal snow or rain.
On a typical Grand Teton National Park day, the sun warms the earth and air of the valley by day. As the higher pressure warm air accumulates, it rises and expands into progressively lower pressures of the peaks of the Grand Tetons. This ascending higher pressure air wants to fill in the lower pressure air so it expands, creating clouds and winds and possibly precipitation. Most likely though, with Grand Teton National Park's weather is very dry, wind and lightning caused by cloud friction occur.
Because of these extreme storms that seem to come without warning, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has declared Grand Teton National Park weather as a natural wonder of its own. Together, the NOAA and Grand Teton National Park implemented a program called StormReady. Because of Grand Teton National Park weather patterns, it was necessary to have a way to warn the visitors of sudden and dangerous storms. Grand Teton National Park is the first national park to be part of StormReady.
There are now Grand Teton National Park weather spotters who are always on the lookout for impending danger. The StormReady program turns to fear of the notorious storms into an appreciation for a unique phenomenon un-duplicated in the other national parks.