Officials close inbound traffic into Yellowstone National Park

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17. Yeah this time or year, there is a normal change in the jetstream

that heralds the beginning of the "dry season" out west and I guess this year, it was skewed a bit too much to the point where that part of the west not only got into that Pacific ocean flow, but also ended up partially under the heat from a ridge over the midwest, so all the beneficial snow up in the mountains, went through a sudden melt, and that ended up adding more water outflow to the area.

They were still having snow out that way in the Northern Plains in late April, with back-to-back blizzards and the hope is always to have a gradual melt, but that was not to be when the heat dome set up.