Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Winter storms of 2008 2009 profiles the major worldwide winter storms, including blizzards, ice storms, and other winter events, from July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009. A winter storm is an event in which the dominant varieties of precipitation are forms that only occur at cold temperatures, such as snow or sleet, or a rainstorm where ground temperatures are cold enough to allow ice to form (i.e. freezing rain).About 52 people and 200,000 head of cattle had died by this date in Mongolia.A huge early season storm began to develop over the Great Basin on the 10th and snowfall spread through the Idaho mountains and into Montana. It spread eastward through the rest of Montana and Wyoming throughout the 10th, bringing heavy snowfall to the northern High Plains and adjacent Rocky Mountains. Snow will fill in across Utah and Colorado on the 11th, and as the strong low pressure area moves northeast through Wyoming and into the High Plains, snow will once again intensify across those regions.