While August started with a record-breaking heat wave, it’s ending with at least one record-low temperature and, even more surprising, snow.

Officials with the National Weather Service forecast office in Pocatello say several high elevation areas received snow between Sunday night and Tuesday morning.

An area 8 miles northwest of Island Park received just under a half inch of snow, said meteorologist Greg Kaiser, adding that that location has an elevation of 7,700 feet. Smiley Mountain in Custer County and Vienna Mine in Blaine County both saw more than an inch of snow.

Grand Targhee in Wyoming, which has an elevation of more than 9,000 feet, received the most at 5.5 inches of snow, Kaiser said. The resort is along the Idaho-Wyoming border.

“It’s a bit earlier than usual,” Kaiser said. Even though Idaho doesn’t often get snow in August, it has happened in the past, he said.

This week also saw some low temperatures. Kaiser said lows in Island Park and Stanley fell below freezing Tuesday morning, and Pocatello set a new record. The temperature dropped to 34 near the airport on Tuesday, breaking the previous record of 38 set for that date in 2004.

Kaiser said temperatures should climb once more in the days ahead.

Idaho Falls and Pocatello will see highs in the upper 70s and low 80s this week. Lows should be in the 40s and 50s, according to the National Weather Service website.