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Montana Snow About 60 Days Early
iceagenow.info ^ | 9/15/2017 | Robert

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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TOPICS: Local News; Miscellaneous; Outdoors; Science
KEYWORDS: agw; climatechange; missoula; montana; snowfall; warmingsfault
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21 posted on 09/16/2017 11:17:19 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: dfwgator

Can I get a refund on my Zircon encrusted tweezers?


22 posted on 09/16/2017 11:44:56 AM PDT by coincheck (Time is Short, Salvation is for Today)
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To: rktman

Part of me would really like to see glaciers to start building up and the winter snow line to start in New York City. The boundary be right at the UN.


23 posted on 09/16/2017 1:57:58 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I watched the fireworks wearing a snow parka in Great Falls, MT on July 4th experiencing snow flurries. It was 1977 or 1978. Elevation 3,330 feet.


24 posted on 09/16/2017 2:27:55 PM PDT by I Drive Too Fast
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To: rktman

I’d love to see cooler weather here...I’m waiting for temps in the low 80s!!


25 posted on 09/16/2017 2:29:44 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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To: rktman

This is going to have a serious effect on the banana crop.


26 posted on 09/16/2017 2:33:11 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: rktman
we desparately need rain and/or an early snow...

we've had record dryness and record prolonged temps above 90 even as late as last week...

last night...in the low 30's...

my husband hunted down in the Hells Canyon area and the first few days they had temps in the 90's but then overnight it turned quite cold and rainy...

this is the west...

27 posted on 09/16/2017 2:36:17 PM PDT by cherry
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To: cherry
😹. And we live in the west because....... We like it.
28 posted on 09/16/2017 3:22:43 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Rushmore Rocks

https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/barrington-il/60010/weather-forecast/2240508


29 posted on 09/16/2017 7:15:25 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: LucyT

Expecting a hard freeze tonight. Got the tomatoes and cukes covered. A little mixed rain and snow right now. I love it. Still a lot of smoke and haze from the forest fires.


30 posted on 09/16/2017 7:28:30 PM PDT by Rushmore Rocks
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To: rktman
we LOVE living in the west....and I'm from the east originally...I miss many things including the beautiful greenery and the fall leaves...

but nothing like the west...

31 posted on 09/16/2017 9:02:32 PM PDT by cherry
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To: cherry

My ancestores settled in the Hudson Valley NY area where my dad was born. He was a career Navy officer eventually so I moved a bunch as a kid. From Guam to England and a bunch in between. I ended up in the LA/MS area for quite a few years and then FL for 24. We used to come skiing out west and decided to retire out here. Do NOT miss the oppressive humidity. If we want green, we can drive up to the Sierras. But, I know what you mean.


32 posted on 09/17/2017 6:06:00 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman
we just took a trip to Montana...there is snow in the mountains and predict more today especially Kalispel to the east and south....they've had a very bad fire season and very dry and any moisture will help...

hey rktman...you being from Montana, do you know anything about the understory with the Browning city govt dissolving and all its assets being given to the Blackeet tribe?

33 posted on 09/22/2017 11:39:11 AM PDT by cherry
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To: cherry

Sorry, not in or from MT. In NV. But, we have a 1 to 4 inch dusting in the sierras this morning and just had some sleety like precip here at our house.


34 posted on 09/22/2017 12:53:38 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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