Posted on 09/16/2017 9:20:33 AM PDT by rktman
I live south of Missoula, Montana, in the Sapphire & Bitterroot Mountains at 3,500 ft; in the area being discussed, and we haven’t been getting snow like this for several years. Our hunting seasons have been without snow quite regularly and last year we didn’t get ANY snow until the last few days of the season in late November. However the winter snow sticks around here until early August at higher altitude (6,000 ft+).
So, it’s about 60 days early, and with this the bow hunters might stop complaining about terrible tracking conditions without SNOW. Animals leave tell-tale tracks in the snow to follow their movements.
The real change has been the temperature and seasonal shift. What used to take several weeks to change from blistering hot to a cooler fall season has turned into an OVERNIGHT event. Even with hot days (80s & 90s), the nights are dropping into the mid to low forties. This summer has been like the Sahara and then overnight NOW it’s cold-drizzly-wet old London, and then our next day is followed by northern Norway. We could turn around of course and go back to the Sahara for a couple of weeks, but if the snow sticks and keeps advancing down the mountainsides then the shift to winter will have deleted our having any FALL season.
Sometimes we get an Indian Summer; a reprieve with sun & heat in early November, but they have become all but scarce events.
It’s very early to get this kind of snow, however (trying to be positive) we do need it to possibly dampen and put out some of the high-mountain fires that have been allowed to go unchecked. Global warming nonsense is only a political expedient …try living here in the cold reality.
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I don’t understand why people think the ‘weather’ is glued to the ground.
Maybe Al Gore can fly out there in his gas-guzzling private jet to see/feel it for himself.
And take numb-skull Leonardo DeCaprio with him. As you may know, Leo’s ‘terrified’ at what he sees around the world...
Must be a Global Warming summit there
Global warming strikes again.
Leo dee crapio? He’s terrified that the chopper he’s making his observations from might be forced to land in the middle of “it”.
You are all going to die in the hell of mam-made Global Cooling, unless you give the Democrat Party all of your money to buy Climate Absolution with!
I’ll be in your back yard in a month. Gonna stay until I have some Elk Backstraps.
Was there two weeks ago. Yeah everything south and west of you was tinder or already smoldering.
There goes the Dental Floss crop.
37 degrees and rainy here at my home in the Black Hills.
It snowed on Pikes Peak in August, 1953. Also in July, 1986.
I was there both times.
How does it effect P-dog hunting? I may move there for a couple of months to help a ‘winnable’ candidate take out Tester.
Trump’s fault.
In first week June 2012 Mrs. rktman was headed to the hospital to see me after my back surgery and passed through some snow flurries here in Reno.
Freeze warning last night at 2400 feet, and I pushed up the replacement of the furnace filters (a job that takes all of two minutes and that I keep putting off for reasons that escape me completely). The fellow whose truck I was buying was pressing elk jerky on me like a drug pusher...hmm, and it worked, too... Time to put the cover back on the air conditioner and move the screen sliders back into storage. I love autumn.
We've noted this too in Western Washington state. The temps were consistently in the upper 80's to low 90's and then plummeted to 60's and 70's.
It doesn't matter, it's called weather and the change of season. It does remind me that I've got to clean the gutters one more time before the serious nasty hits!
That reminds me...we need to get our screen door on the front door for the season. Well, like last year, I’ll wait for April ‘18.
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