Posted on 09/29/2019 2:49:47 PM PDT by RightGeek
HELENA, Mont. — A powerful winter storm socked much of Montana with a wave of heavy snowfall on Sunday, with weekend totals climbing to 40 inches in some places, and breaking century-long daily records.
Never mind that it has only just turned to fall. Gov. Steve Bullock declared a winter emergency as cars skidded off highways, communities lost power and farmers despaired at the damage to crops that were still in the ground.
“It’s a February storm in September,” said Jeff Mow, the superintendent of Glacier National Park in the state’s mountainous northwest. “We’re used to this kind of storm, just not this time of year.”
The snowfall totals were staggering for any time of year: 40 inches in Browning since Friday, and 38 inches in St. Mary.
Records were tumbling across the state. On Saturday, the National Weather Service recorded snow at the Missoula International Airport. There had not been a trace of snow recorded on any Sept. 28 since 1893.
Great Falls was blanketed by 9.7 inches of snow on Saturday, topping a daily snowfall record of 6.1 inches that had been set in 1954. On Sunday morning, another 4.3 inches of snow fell there.
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Now that would be some cosmic irony!
But...b-b-but...global warming!
It surely is proof of climate change. 8>) /sarcasm
From what I’ve September snowstorms are not that unusual there. They get snow in August, too.
Meanwhile we have the endless summer in Tennessee. 94 today.
Temp in my town this time of year is 50 night, 65-70 daytime. Imagine my surprise when we woke up to snow falling on our lawn chairs. My cat is really miffed, because she usually gets out twice a day, now doesn’t want to go out at all.
We hate nasty little Greta. So does almost everyone at DailyMail, where the comments are a hoot.
Paging Greta “muy ruined childhood”
They renamed it climate change when the world started getting such cold weather. It was when Gore was making his hundreds of millions off of this scam.
No snow at my elevation in the Colorado Rockies so far this fall. But, we had snow at the end on June.
Solar minimum...No sunspots in about 24 days...The liberal jackasses have no clue...
Now we only have 8 years left. Snow is proof of global warming. Everything is proof of climate change. Get out of your car now! You evil climate deniar. Stop burning fossil fuels and wood to stay warm. I have to fly around in my private jet so I can tell you to live in a cave don’t you know.
Ohhhh, it's a record for that specific date of the 28th!?
But not a record for the month of September as a whole I'd be willing to bet.
Gonna be 88 in NY this week but then the 60s come.
And I can venture outdoors besides work again :)
When it comes to weather records in Montana I would also point out that 1893 was only 126 years ago and it’s not likely that records there go back much further than that.
Wow, I just got back from St Mary. They were boarding everything up and warning visitors to leave.
I’m in the Columbia basin in Eastern Washington. I’m looking out my window on the south slope of Rattlesnake mountain and its cover in snow down to about the 1,000 ft level. I’m at 740 msl. Never seen it snow this early in 40 years I’ve lived here.
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