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Jim Woodmencey is the long-standing meteorological sage of Jackson Hole. Since the 1990s his website, Mountain Weather, has carried tailor-made forecasts for both the valley and the Tetons — and, he hopes, has kept many a recreationist safe and warm. There was a time, though, when he didn’t know a cirrus cloud from a cumulonimbus. What happens when a mass of air rides a sloping mountainside up to 13,000 feet? Teenage Woodmencey hadn’t a clue. But after enough weather-induced misadventures, he chose to learn such things and, eventually, to package his knowledge into a service for his community. Woodmencey grew up in San Mateo, California, a few hours from the Sierra Nevada, where his father introduced him to the wilderness and its climatic mood swings. After high school, for lack of any better ideas, he went to Yosemite.

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