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2024-08-30 14:25:02 UTC
Rare Summer Snow Clips Montana's Peaks
Montana got an early taste of winter this week. The NWS even issued a Winter Weather Advisory for Glacier
National Park and the Mission Mountains, as an unusual August snowstorm swept through the region.
On Wednesday, August 28, a myriad of Montana ski areas reported fresh accumulating snow.
Whitefish Mountain Resort was one of them. By 10 AM, noteworthy snow was settling as low as 5,800 feet,
including at the resort's upper terminals of Chair 1 and Chair 7:
"This has got to be a new record," remarked Chad Sokol, Whitefish's Public Relations Manager. "An unheard-of
late-August squall delivered a solid inch of snow to the summit this morning, along with a visible dusting
across the upper 1,000 feet of Big Mountain. ... measurable snow this time of year? We didn't see that
coming."
Whitefish wasn't alone. Bridger Bowl Ski Area also reported its first snow of the season, as did a host of
others.
The storm actually intensified at Glacier National Park's Logan Pass. By late-morning, the NWS reported
increasing snowfall rates, with forecasts predicting between as much as 7 inches of snow at the Logan Pass
Visitor's Center by day's end.
This is the same Glacier National Park (GNP) that, back in late-2019, was forced to take down all of its
visitor center signs that declared glaciers at the Park would be disappeared by the year 2020 due to the
ravages of global boiling.
All signs were sheepishly pulled from its displays after the computer models it relied upon from the early
2000s, which foretold of unending glacial retreat, turned out to be garbage-in garbage-out.
"Larger than average snowfall over several winters slowed down that retreat rate and the 2020 date used in
the display does not apply anymore," said the USGS at the time, an agency tasked with monitoring the glaciers
at GNP.
Since then, an all-time record-smashing snow season hit in 2022-23. This was followed by the well-above-
average season just gone. And now, 2024-25 appears to have started in earnest, in August! an early taste of
winter that has certainly stirred the excitement. As one Instagramer put it, "I've seen enough. Open the
lifts."
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Frigid Winter Forecast For NH
Vast Cold Wave About To Sweep The U.S.
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Montana got an early taste of winter this week. The NWS even issued a Winter Weather Advisory for Glacier
National Park and the Mission Mountains, as an unusual August snowstorm swept through the region.
On Wednesday, August 28, a myriad of Montana ski areas reported fresh accumulating snow.
Whitefish Mountain Resort was one of them. By 10 AM, noteworthy snow was settling as low as 5,800 feet,
including at the resort's upper terminals of Chair 1 and Chair 7:
"This has got to be a new record," remarked Chad Sokol, Whitefish's Public Relations Manager. "An unheard-of
late-August squall delivered a solid inch of snow to the summit this morning, along with a visible dusting
across the upper 1,000 feet of Big Mountain. ... measurable snow this time of year? We didn't see that
coming."
Whitefish wasn't alone. Bridger Bowl Ski Area also reported its first snow of the season, as did a host of
others.
The storm actually intensified at Glacier National Park's Logan Pass. By late-morning, the NWS reported
increasing snowfall rates, with forecasts predicting between as much as 7 inches of snow at the Logan Pass
Visitor's Center by day's end.
This is the same Glacier National Park (GNP) that, back in late-2019, was forced to take down all of its
visitor center signs that declared glaciers at the Park would be disappeared by the year 2020 due to the
ravages of global boiling.
All signs were sheepishly pulled from its displays after the computer models it relied upon from the early
2000s, which foretold of unending glacial retreat, turned out to be garbage-in garbage-out.
"Larger than average snowfall over several winters slowed down that retreat rate and the 2020 date used in
the display does not apply anymore," said the USGS at the time, an agency tasked with monitoring the glaciers
at GNP.
Since then, an all-time record-smashing snow season hit in 2022-23. This was followed by the well-above-
average season just gone. And now, 2024-25 appears to have started in earnest, in August! an early taste of
winter that has certainly stirred the excitement. As one Instagramer put it, "I've seen enough. Open the
lifts."
=====
August:
Thousands Without Power In Tasmania As Cold And Snow Intensify
Foot Of Snow Closes Going-To-The-Sun Road
Rare August Snow Clips Montana's Peaks
Earth's Oceans Are Cooling Fast, And Scientists Have Yet To Come Up With A Party-Approved Reason Why
Snow In Wyoming And Colorado
August Snow Has U.S. Resorts Planning For Winter
Rare Snow And Century-Old Cold Records Fall In California
Rare August Chill Breaks Decades-Old Records
Rare August Snow For The Sierra Nevada
The Atlantic's Rapid Cooling
Heavy Snow Hits New Zealand's South Island
Record Summer Chills Sweep The Great Lakes, Northeast, and Southern Canada
Where Are The Hurricanes? Another Crushing Defeat For Team Climate Change
Antarctica Registers -75.5C (-103.9F), Sea Ice Surges
Winter Far From Over In New Zealand
Historical "Heatwave Days" Show No Trend
Researchers Pumped Extra CO2 Into A Forest, And Biodiversity Thrived
Low Temperature Records Fall In U.S.
Frosts Persist In South America, Impacting Coffee Prices
Island Nations Like Tuvalu: Growing, Not Sinking
Record Cold Sweeps Brazil
Antarctica Back Below -70C (-94F)
Summer Snowfall at Khardungla Pass
Polar Bear And Arctic Sea Ice Lies Persist
Polar Fronts To Hit South America
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Gains 1 Million Km2 In A Week
Frigid Winter Forecast For NH
Vast Cold Wave About To Sweep The U.S.
Greek Study Challenges CO2-Temperature Causality
Arctic Shipping Season Is Shortening
Rapid Antarctic Sea Ice Growth
Heavy Snow Hits New Zealand
Too Many Polar Bears In Greenland
British Farmers Paid To NOT Produce Food
Record July Cold Hits Scotland
Summer To Quit Early This Year
Remarkable Summer Gains On The Greenland Ice Sheet
Arctic Sea Ice Extent: No Cause For Alarm
$78 Trillion To Fight The Hoax of 'Climate Crisis'