Well, winter is coming to Montana, woke up to white on the ground and more falling. Be plenty of nice warm days ahead before it is here to stay. Just a reminder that I live in Montana and it snows when it wants too. We get an average of 65" here. I don't know that it has ever snowed in July or August, it did snow 4" in June once and we average 4" in May and Oct and the record was 24" in one late March day.

You warm weather people take heed. If you were a S&W this place would freeze you serial number location off.

I'm still having to wear shorts and a wifebeater while cutting the grass.

I'm glad I'm in Texas.

Holey moley, here in SC we're still running the AC!

Please keep it to yourself, we'll get ours soon enough.

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So many S&W's, so few funds!!

I'm thinking about buying fresh gas for the snowblower

It wouldn't hurt to start it, either. Nothing like waiting until the first decent snow fall to find out that the blower won't start.

Have to fall back to the manual implement. Snow shovel.

That's a good start!
I hope we get a lot out west.
We need the water!

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Could you post a pic? Pictures would make me feel cooler

Mostly gone already, just whats in on the grass left and on top of things like my metal boat port.

I'll run my snowblower at least once a month...even in the summer.I like to start the mower and then run the snowblower for 10-15 minutes while I'm mowing the lawn.Had a couple of neighbors complain about the noise my lawnmower was making.

All I ever ask for, for Christmas is a light dusting on Christmas Eve and Christmas morning. It's becoming more rare here. But it just sets the mood for a Beautiful Christmas.

Otherwise I don't want to see it. But Usally mid to late February is when ice and snow rocks our world. but Nashville shuts down with an inch of snow. And it's a good thing, Nashville drivers suck if it just rains!!

Heck it was 89 degrees here yesterday and the same expected today. Our Usual high should be 78 this time of year.

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Live From Music City USA

So far just leaves falling for us. Good reminder to tend to the snow blower however.

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Mike
S&WCA #3065

Came home from Missoula Monday afternoon over Lost Trail Pass into Idaho. 3" of snow on the Montana side.
We have a good dusting on the peaks of the Continental Divide behind the home.

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Memory of Randy Freas-Rimfired

I visited Glacier and Yellowstone parks in 2015 and both had suffered from lack of snow. Maybe 2016-17 winter will be better.

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Bob.
SWCA 1821

Running two here-and inside still warm and humid as hell.

Got over an inch at our house on Sunday night in the North Valleys of Reno. We live at about 5100'

All my hose bibs were frozen shut, had to drain the irrigation that night because we've had freezes every night since.

We enjoyed .55" of rain followed by 2" of horizontal snow in that same storm, steelslaver. A bit heavy on the rain and light on the snow for us right about now. Sure sent the elk hunters pouring out of their high-country camps on Saturday. I think they're all back up there now. Pretty, sunny, and 38 today.

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Bob

I was in Rock Springs some years ago during a "white-out" and was lead to believe all snow in Wyoming was horizontal.

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Bob.
SWCA 1821

Well down at Rock Springs the snow usually IS horizontal. I was driving home from back in Delaware to Wyoming.. Stopped in Sidney Nebraska..Left Sidney in the morning heading toward Cheyenne. 65 degrees..Got to Cheyenne it was snowing horizontally with 3 inches on the ground...Almost white out. The last of the trip usually takes about 6 hours to home.. but that day it took 13. Horizontal snow all the way. Next day it was 12 below at home.. BIG change

I do remember Christmas day 2009... fresh powder fell straight down all day for an accumulation of 16". Bing Crosby would have cried. By sunrise on the 26th the wind was a steady 30mph, and we were back to our usual bare spots and drifts.

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Bob

I live in Maryland and we had a record of 77inches in 2009/10.. I could not imagine 65" in a regular winter.. Wow.. Dig ma'man Dig..

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IamOneGunAwayFromHappy

...we got our first one last night...three inches and A LOT of wind...9500 feet here...we're lucky to make it this late...

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A Country Boy Can Survive

...Donner Pass is the place to be if you like snow...

...The winter of '52 boasts a seemingly endless list of weather superlatives, including the deepest snowpack ever measured near Donner Pass at 26 feet, and the Summit's second greatest annual snowfall on record with 67.7 feet, just five inches shy of the 1938 all-time record...

...I've heard the building code up there requires exterior stairs from the second floor...

Nugget 106

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A Country Boy Can Survive

Me Too. We live in Abilene and we got a couple inches last and a dusting the year before.


Way more than enuf

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We get rain here in the foothills of the Western Cascade range in WA state. If we want snow, we drive 65 minutes to the mountains and ski/snowshoe/hunt....

As a former Coloradan that make me feel warm all over. Probably because it got to 90 here today.

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High 70s today here in Michigan....but that will change over night...

My "snow blower" is a old Ford diesel 4x4 with a plow mounted on the front. No need Tetris, but it was spitting snow for 3 mornings in a row. But, supposed to be 70s this weekend. Elevation here is only 4000 ft, but surroundings mtns go over 7000, Low lander compared to those over by the Beartooths. I live in the great Judith basin bordered by the Judith, Snowies, Belts, Moccasins, and Highwoods, and backed up by other front fingers ranges of the eastern side of the Continental divide.

[QUOTE= surroundings mtns go over 7000, Low lander compared to those over by the Beartooths. I live in the great Judith basin bordered by the Judith, Snowies, Belts, Moccasins, and Highwoods, and backed up by other front fingers ranges of the eastern side of the Continental divide.[/QUOTE]

Your area also has a bit of wind I believe. I've been up there driving in horizontal snow also.

2009/10... ah, yes, I remember. 250" and a great summer after.

Then in 2011/12 we got 55" and no spring rains. Wildfires all summer. Streams and springs dried up. Critters had a horrible season. Taught me never to bemoan all the white stuff we can get.

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Bob

[QUOTE=You warm weather people take heed. If you were a S&W this place would freeze you serial number location off.[/QUOTE]

I lived in Akron, Ohio for ten years. Snow that puts Montana to shame on a city road built with slippery bricks out of hilly deer paths and a highway sunk into an old canal bottom with 45 degree ramps that all iced over instantly with every northerly wind. I remember gas pumps freezing in all the stations. My doors freezing in the jambs. Exiting the house from second story windows onto the snow. People who could take it no more and walked out into Lake Eerie until they fell through the ice. The sun disappeared in August and did not come back until May. No more.

I had my life's share of snow and ice, my rule now is to live south of I-10.