Mercurial Posted December 25, 2017 Report Share Posted December 25, 2017 Also, -sn and about 1" so far here at my mother's house in Helena on Christmas day, on top of the 6" she already had. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverFallsAndrew Posted December 25, 2017 Report Share Posted December 25, 2017 I need to move to Montana. 1 Quote Snowfall Precip 2022-23: 95.0" 2022-23: 17.39" 2021-22: 52.6" 2021-22: 91.46" 2020-21: 12.0" 2020-21: 71.59" 2019-20: 23.5" 2019-20: 58.54" 2018-19: 63.5" 2018-19: 66.33" 2017-18: 30.3" 2017-18: 59.83" 2016-17: 49.2" 2016-17: 97.58" 2015-16: 11.75" 2015-16: 68.67" 2014-15: 3.5" 2013-14: 11.75" 2013-14: 62.30 2012-13: 16.75" 2012-13: 78.45 2011-12: 98.5" 2011-12: 92.67" It's always sunny at Winters Hill! Fighting the good fight against weather evil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kayla Posted December 25, 2017 Report Share Posted December 25, 2017 Light snow began here in the early morning and continues this Christmas morning! Looks like about 2" of new snow so far. Very cold out there today...currently only 5F which will likely be my high on the day. Gotta love 40:1 snow ratios! 1 Quote Cold Season 2023/24: Total snowfall: 26" Highest daily snowfall: 5" Deepest snow depth: 12" Coldest daily high: -20ºF Coldest daily low: -42ºF Number of subzero days: 5 Personal Weather Station on Wunderground: https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KMTBOZEM152#history Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Hole Posted December 25, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 25, 2017 We have a white Christmas in SLC this morning. I got 4.6" overnight, and with the snow that was already there its about 6.5" deep. Finally feels like winter! 2 Quote Winter 23-24: Total Snow (3.2") Total Ice (0.2") Coldest Low: 1F Coldest High: 5F Snow Events: 0.1" Jan 5th, 0.2" Jan 9th, 1.6" Jan 14, 0.2" (ice) Jan 22, 1.3" Feb 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kayla Posted December 26, 2017 Report Share Posted December 26, 2017 Yet another chilly day yesterday with snowfall. High of only 6F with a low of 0F and 4" of snowfall. Low this morning was -6F and still only up to -2F this late morning. Was looking over December snowfall records and it looks like Bozeman MSU is really close to breaking the all-time snowfall record for the month. Record is 38" set back in 2008 and as of yesterday they were already at 33.1". Nothing was recorded yesterday but looks like reports were in the 3-4" range which would bring them right up to the record. More snowfall is expected this week, especially by late week so it will be interesting to see how high they go! I'm already at 51" of snowfall on the month but I honestly have no idea where that stacks up climatology speaking since it's my first year here and there are no snowfall records for the area. Quote Cold Season 2023/24: Total snowfall: 26" Highest daily snowfall: 5" Deepest snow depth: 12" Coldest daily high: -20ºF Coldest daily low: -42ºF Number of subzero days: 5 Personal Weather Station on Wunderground: https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KMTBOZEM152#history Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kayla Posted December 26, 2017 Report Share Posted December 26, 2017 Beautiful, cold morning in what looks like to be a blue bird type of day! http://i63.tinypic.com/2vb367n.jpghttp://i68.tinypic.com/4u6vqe.jpg 2 Quote Cold Season 2023/24: Total snowfall: 26" Highest daily snowfall: 5" Deepest snow depth: 12" Coldest daily high: -20ºF Coldest daily low: -42ºF Number of subzero days: 5 Personal Weather Station on Wunderground: https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KMTBOZEM152#history Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wx_statman Posted December 26, 2017 Report Share Posted December 26, 2017 -27 this morning in Cut Bank. The high yesterday in Glasgow was -15, just missing the daily record low/max of -18 from 1996. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercurial Posted December 26, 2017 Report Share Posted December 26, 2017 -27 this morning in Cut Bank. The high yesterday in Glasgow was -15, just missing the daily record low/max of -18 from 1996. (I know that statistically Cut Bank's avg temperature is not even close to being the coldest spot in either MT or the nation, but eh who's counting...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercurial Posted December 27, 2017 Report Share Posted December 27, 2017 Nice weenie graphic by NWS Billings. I remember Christmas of 96. HEH... Kalispell had five feet of snow on the ground that Christmas. That entire winter was unreal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kayla Posted December 27, 2017 Report Share Posted December 27, 2017 Nice weenie graphic by NWS Billings. I remember Christmas of 96. HEH... Kalispell had five feet of snow on the ground that Christmas. That entire winter was unreal. The models are still really struggling with what to do with this upcoming pattern which is a bit frustrating. No doubt someone is going to get buried within that "battleground" area. Been a common theme this season as we continue to get a lot of NW flow with moisture streaming in and stalled fronts. 1 Quote Cold Season 2023/24: Total snowfall: 26" Highest daily snowfall: 5" Deepest snow depth: 12" Coldest daily high: -20ºF Coldest daily low: -42ºF Number of subzero days: 5 Personal Weather Station on Wunderground: https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KMTBOZEM152#history Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kayla Posted December 27, 2017 Report Share Posted December 27, 2017 Looking like Missoula could be one of the big winners with this series of storms now. GFS/ECMWF/GEM all show at least 15" of snowfall for them. 12z GFS goes even crazier with nearly 30" (Kuchera ratio) by Sunday! Really awesome setup from a meteorological standpoint. Atmospheric river type moisture feeding in against an Arctic front stalled out over the Divide. Battle zone is obviously drawn right along those two air masses. Couldn't draw it up any better really. Quote Cold Season 2023/24: Total snowfall: 26" Highest daily snowfall: 5" Deepest snow depth: 12" Coldest daily high: -20ºF Coldest daily low: -42ºF Number of subzero days: 5 Personal Weather Station on Wunderground: https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KMTBOZEM152#history Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercurial Posted December 27, 2017 Report Share Posted December 27, 2017 The models are still really struggling with what to do with this upcoming pattern which is a bit frustrating. No doubt someone is going to get buried within that "battleground" area. Been a common theme this season as we continue to get a lot of NW flow with moisture streaming in and stalled fronts. Yep bust potential seems quite high... NWS Missoula seems super bullish tho, we'll see. Arctic airmasses around here have a tendency to get 'stuck in' in the high terrain of GNP and the Bob and therefore can wind up delayed by 12 or more hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercurial Posted December 27, 2017 Report Share Posted December 27, 2017 Lol @ the bolded, from this morning's AFD. As if the forecast hadn`t been complicated enough to this point,what happens late Friday afternoon into Saturday has potential tobe one of the more impressive snow events in recent memory.Models consistently paint the most robust plume of Pacificmoisture moving across the area at this time. Meanwhile, animpressively deep and extremely cold arctic air mass will beginto wedge its way across the Continental Divide. What occurs nextwill be both meteorologically beautiful, but also likely quitecrippling, for many areas as a full on collision of thesedistinctly different air masses happens across parts of WestCentral and Northwest Montana (generally north of I-90). Thepersistent pummeling of very intense heavy snow and in someplaces, stark blowing and drifting of snow due to low level arcticwinds, could make travel extremely difficult, if not impossible,overnight Friday night into Saturday morning.There are several forecast tools which indicate this will be avery impressive and potentially record setting snowfall event. Oneof these, the Short Range Ensemble Forecast (SREF), shows highprobabilities of greater than 8 inches of snow and perhaps someareas seeing over a foot of new snow along and north of I-90between mid day Friday and Saturday morning. This model, being acollection of various model members, tends to play along themiddle of the road. But still, it`s quite impressive that the SREFwould give a mean/average storm total this week in Missoula ofaround 14 inches & nearly 20 inches in Kalispell with 7 inches and11 inches respectively falling during the heaviest period fromFriday afternoon through Saturday morning! http://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&issuedby=mso&product=AFD&format=CI&glossary=1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Front Ranger Posted December 27, 2017 Report Share Posted December 27, 2017 Ended up being pretty cold the past few days while I was gone. Highs of just 24, 19, and 10 the past three days at DEN. Looks like my coldest temp at home was -3 on Christmas morning. Quote A forum for the end of the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kayla Posted December 27, 2017 Report Share Posted December 27, 2017 Winter Storm Warning posted for Gallatin County and pretty much the rest of Central Montana beginning tomorrow morning through all of Saturday. NWS is going with 12-18" for Bozeman which I honestly think is a bit overdone at this point. I'm thinking something closer to 8-12" is more realistic at this point. Unless they are thinking the models are overestimating the drying/downsloping like they often do here. Interesting enough, I see the Missoula NWS hasn't pulled the trigger on their Winter Storm Watch but Great Falls NWS sure didn't hesitant with theirs! Either way, yet another big storm is on the way. Friday night into Saturday looks like the main event with very heavy snow expected. Cold air really settles in here on Sunday with below zero readings once again. Quote Cold Season 2023/24: Total snowfall: 26" Highest daily snowfall: 5" Deepest snow depth: 12" Coldest daily high: -20ºF Coldest daily low: -42ºF Number of subzero days: 5 Personal Weather Station on Wunderground: https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KMTBOZEM152#history Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kayla Posted December 27, 2017 Report Share Posted December 27, 2017 Lol @ the bolded, from this morning's AFD. http://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&issuedby=mso&product=AFD&format=CI&glossary=1 Missoula NWS reminds me a bit of the Portland NWS. They definitely seem to "geek" out sometimes with their discussions! Makes it kind of fun but also sometimes slightly wishcasting. Quote Cold Season 2023/24: Total snowfall: 26" Highest daily snowfall: 5" Deepest snow depth: 12" Coldest daily high: -20ºF Coldest daily low: -42ºF Number of subzero days: 5 Personal Weather Station on Wunderground: https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KMTBOZEM152#history Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Hole Posted December 28, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 I am down in Abilene Texas right now and where I am staying it was just 26F this afternoon, which is colder than any highs in SLC so far lolGo figure, just go to Texas for cold. Quote Winter 23-24: Total Snow (3.2") Total Ice (0.2") Coldest Low: 1F Coldest High: 5F Snow Events: 0.1" Jan 5th, 0.2" Jan 9th, 1.6" Jan 14, 0.2" (ice) Jan 22, 1.3" Feb 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Hole Posted December 28, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 Winter Storm Warning posted for Gallatin County and pretty much the rest of Central Montana beginning tomorrow morning through all of Saturday. NWS is going with 12-18" for Bozeman which I honestly think is a bit overdone at this point. I'm thinking something closer to 8-12" is more realistic at this point. Unless they are thinking the models are overestimating the drying/downsloping like they often do here. Interesting enough, I see the Missoula NWS hasn't pulled the trigger on their Winter Storm Watch but Great Falls NWS sure didn't hesitant with theirs! Either way, yet another big storm is on the way. Friday night into Saturday looks like the main event with very heavy snow expected. Cold air really settles in here on Sunday with below zero readings once again.This one looks like it could be really big, that is for sure. I will be watching with you so keep us posted with what you see. 1 Quote Winter 23-24: Total Snow (3.2") Total Ice (0.2") Coldest Low: 1F Coldest High: 5F Snow Events: 0.1" Jan 5th, 0.2" Jan 9th, 1.6" Jan 14, 0.2" (ice) Jan 22, 1.3" Feb 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercurial Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 Super crappy driving conditions in places tonight. Driving back to WF from Helena tonight, I hit white out (black out?) conditions on 90 between Garrison Jct and Bearmouth. Pulled over in Missoula for the night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kayla Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 Super crappy driving conditions in places tonight. Driving back to WF from Helena tonight, I hit white out (black out?) conditions on 90 between Garrison Jct and Bearmouth. Pulled over in Missoula for the night. Yikes. Safe travels back to Whitefish today! Looks like you guys should do really well up there over the next few days. Had about 2" of snow here last night but otherwise things have been pretty calm and mild. Even getting some downsloping winds this morning rising my temp above freezing for the first time in over a week. I'm still not all that impressed with the storm down here. Latest model trends show the PNW low going further north while the front loses its upper level support and falling apart down this way. Will be interesting to see what the ECMWF shows later this morning. Quote Cold Season 2023/24: Total snowfall: 26" Highest daily snowfall: 5" Deepest snow depth: 12" Coldest daily high: -20ºF Coldest daily low: -42ºF Number of subzero days: 5 Personal Weather Station on Wunderground: https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KMTBOZEM152#history Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercurial Posted December 29, 2017 Report Share Posted December 29, 2017 Yikes. Safe travels back to Whitefish today! Looks like you guys should do really well up there over the next few days. Had about 2" of snow here last night but otherwise things have been pretty calm and mild. Even getting some downsloping winds this morning rising my temp above freezing for the first time in over a week. I'm still not all that impressed with the storm down here. Latest model trends show the PNW low going further north while the front loses its upper level support and falling apart down this way. Will be interesting to see what the ECMWF shows later this morning. Thanks! Morning drive turned out easy. I've heard of reports of 14" already in southern interior BC for areas that were forecasted to be fringed at 2-4". Anyway, about 4" so far today, has been oscillating between +sn and sn for the last couple hours. Hopefully an epic powder weekend is incoming. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeatherArchive Posted December 29, 2017 Report Share Posted December 29, 2017 It's been mentioned in the PNW thread that east of the Rockies is trending colder. It seems Texas is the place to go for cold weather fix despite it's high long heat in the summer you get rewarded from Dallas north. Makes it worth it to suffer the long summers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kayla Posted December 29, 2017 Report Share Posted December 29, 2017 Impressive Arctic front finally moved through here early this morning. Temp was above freezing all day yesterday and 40F at 4:30am. Front moved through and we are currently down to 12F with moderate snow falling as of 8:30am and still dropping. Definitely a flash freeze scenario out there as the melt was on before the front pushed through. Looks like light to moderate snow should fall for most of the day today with possibly some heavy snow bands moving through later this afternoon and tonight. NWS downgraded snow totals to 4-8" for the Bozeman area which sounds about right. Not sure what they were looking at when they were forecasting 12-18" earlier this week! Quote Cold Season 2023/24: Total snowfall: 26" Highest daily snowfall: 5" Deepest snow depth: 12" Coldest daily high: -20ºF Coldest daily low: -42ºF Number of subzero days: 5 Personal Weather Station on Wunderground: https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KMTBOZEM152#history Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercurial Posted December 29, 2017 Report Share Posted December 29, 2017 Closing in on a foot so far. heh @ the Montana road conditions map, never seen so many purple dots and other miscellaneous colors https://www.mdt.mt.gov/travinfo/map/mtmap_frame.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercurial Posted December 30, 2017 Report Share Posted December 30, 2017 Current wind chill is -20. Heaviest snow of the day right now, just pounding. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kayla Posted December 30, 2017 Report Share Posted December 30, 2017 Current wind chill is -20. Heaviest snow of the day right now, just pounding. You guys have been under the gun all day today! That firehose of moisture has been aimed right at NW MT for almost 48 hours and with the Arctic air now overhead snow ratios are through the roof! Really impressive storm up there. Missoula has been getting ZR most of the day so that one is looking like quite the forecast bust. Storm down this way has been rather unimpressive. Only 2" here today but the snow is starting to pick up a bit again out there. What has been impressive is the cold air. Temps were in the single digits above zero all day and have now dropped below zero. Way below guidance. Quote Cold Season 2023/24: Total snowfall: 26" Highest daily snowfall: 5" Deepest snow depth: 12" Coldest daily high: -20ºF Coldest daily low: -42ºF Number of subzero days: 5 Personal Weather Station on Wunderground: https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KMTBOZEM152#history Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kayla Posted December 30, 2017 Report Share Posted December 30, 2017 Temperature gradient you won't see very often. 5F at Bozeman Airport and 30F at West Yellowstone and its been like that all day. Quote Cold Season 2023/24: Total snowfall: 26" Highest daily snowfall: 5" Deepest snow depth: 12" Coldest daily high: -20ºF Coldest daily low: -42ºF Number of subzero days: 5 Personal Weather Station on Wunderground: https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KMTBOZEM152#history Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kayla Posted December 30, 2017 Report Share Posted December 30, 2017 Getting the heaviest snow yet with temps below zero right now. Looks like it's a strong post frontal snow band but unfortunately shouldn't last all that long. Either way, just absolutely dumping right now and -2F. Quote Cold Season 2023/24: Total snowfall: 26" Highest daily snowfall: 5" Deepest snow depth: 12" Coldest daily high: -20ºF Coldest daily low: -42ºF Number of subzero days: 5 Personal Weather Station on Wunderground: https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KMTBOZEM152#history Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercurial Posted December 30, 2017 Report Share Posted December 30, 2017 Temperature gradient you won't see very often. 5F at Bozeman Airport and 30F at West Yellowstone and its been like that all day. Lots of weird temperature gradients around yesterday. You don't see this every day... https://twitter.com/NWSGreatFalls/status/946927258299707393 (Wisdom is normally a total icebox) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercurial Posted December 30, 2017 Report Share Posted December 30, 2017 Crushed in Whitefish 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Front Ranger Posted December 30, 2017 Report Share Posted December 30, 2017 Much cooler than forecast today. Was supposed to get up to around 40, but already topped out at 27, now down to 25. Quote A forum for the end of the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kayla Posted December 31, 2017 Report Share Posted December 31, 2017 Ended up with only 3.5" down this way. Obviously far NW Montana were the big winners from this storm. Saw some reports of around 40" up at the Seeley Lake area! I can't complain here though, it's been a great month! 56.2" of snowfall on the month and now up over 100" on the season. Looks like Bozeman MSU will blow away the December snowfall record of 38.0" from 2008. They were already at 43.3" as of 4pm yesterday. Will be interesting to see what they recorded since 4pm yesterday. Could end up being really close (but likely end up just short) to the all-time snowiest month of 46.9" set back in April 2009. Quote Cold Season 2023/24: Total snowfall: 26" Highest daily snowfall: 5" Deepest snow depth: 12" Coldest daily high: -20ºF Coldest daily low: -42ºF Number of subzero days: 5 Personal Weather Station on Wunderground: https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KMTBOZEM152#history Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kayla Posted December 31, 2017 Report Share Posted December 31, 2017 Bozeman MSU came agonizingly close to breaking their all-time snowiest month. They ended up with 3" of snowfall yesterday bringing the December total to 46.3" of snowfall. Only 0.6" shy of the record! Oh well, maybe next month?? Fun fact: The 19" snow depth is the deepest since November of 2009. Quote Cold Season 2023/24: Total snowfall: 26" Highest daily snowfall: 5" Deepest snow depth: 12" Coldest daily high: -20ºF Coldest daily low: -42ºF Number of subzero days: 5 Personal Weather Station on Wunderground: https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KMTBOZEM152#history Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kayla Posted December 31, 2017 Report Share Posted December 31, 2017 Low of -7F here this morning. Colder than what I was expecting. Currently -4F. Quote Cold Season 2023/24: Total snowfall: 26" Highest daily snowfall: 5" Deepest snow depth: 12" Coldest daily high: -20ºF Coldest daily low: -42ºF Number of subzero days: 5 Personal Weather Station on Wunderground: https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KMTBOZEM152#history Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wx_statman Posted December 31, 2017 Report Share Posted December 31, 2017 -42 in Saco, northeastern Montana, this morning. This follows a reading of -43 on the 27th. Some serious cold out there. Previously, the last -40 reading was during the February 2011 cold wave (also -43). The last reading lower than -43? The big Jan/Feb 1996 cold wave, during which Saco hit -48. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest happ Posted December 31, 2017 Report Share Posted December 31, 2017 Much cooler than forecast today. Was supposed to get up to around 40, but already topped out at 27, now down to 25. What a difference a day makes! DENVER, CO FLURRIES 16 6 65 N10 30.28R WCI 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercurial Posted December 31, 2017 Report Share Posted December 31, 2017 About 14 here. Balmy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercurial Posted January 4, 2018 Report Share Posted January 4, 2018 OK this weather is boring. In other news, it's been a snowy year in East Glacier and most of Montana. https://twitter.com/NWSGreatFalls/status/948638786807844864 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Front Ranger Posted January 6, 2018 Report Share Posted January 6, 2018 I don't want to jinx it, but it looks like we'll finally get a decent storm here next week with the system moving off the Pacific into CA. Looks juicy, but probably borderline temps for snow. 1 Quote A forum for the end of the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercurial Posted January 8, 2018 Report Share Posted January 8, 2018 We keep getting wet, heavy snow on top of our powder. Every inch of new snow seems to weigh our snowpack downward. Ski resort problems lol :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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