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Winter has officially arrived in the Bitterroot Valley.

11/10/2014

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Like I said...

... winter is coming early to our part of Montana, and snow arrived just ahead of the cold.

What began last night as a good steady rain, turned to snow before morning light.
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The valley floor is now covered with a thin blanket of white, announcing the arrival of old man winter to the Bitterroot Valley in Montana this first half of November.

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These were some of my views on the property this morning. This snow will only last for a few days or so while we are cold, but we will warm up enough for this to melt back off soon.

While the snow in the mountains remains all winter long, our valley typically goes through cooling and warming cycles, where we get snow and then it melts within a week or two, so it never really accumulates on the valley floor. The only time we have much snow down here is when we get a dumping of a foot or more all at once.

Back in the winter of '96/'97, we woke up to 2-1/2 feet of snow all at once overnight, and within a week it was all gone. Our valley is referred to as the banana belt. Winter here in our part of Western Montana is quite different than our winters growing up in the Midwest.


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6 Comments
anna garner
11/10/2014 10:50:31 pm

Your beautiful photos tells us all we need to know ;)

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Nikki - myMountainStudio link
11/11/2014 12:41:09 pm

Thanks, Anna. :)

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Ewenique link
11/11/2014 01:24:45 am

Beautiful photos, Nikki! Is it good snowball fighting snow? lol

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Nikki - myMountainStudio link
11/11/2014 12:47:48 pm

Thank you, Debbie. No, not really enough for snowball fights, and it wasn't the best packing snow, either. We're waiting for enough for skiing and sledding, but I'm not quite ready for winter yet. My son liked the snow for hunting, though. It makes tracking the animals a lot easier. He tracked a bear yesterday, but didn't catch up with him. He did get his second mule deer of the year today, though. He's still planning to go back out after his elk and bear, in between firewood trips.

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Michelle Gates link
11/18/2014 05:35:41 am

I love all the winter photos.

I had no idea you went though such warm/cold cycles in Montana. My area of Virginia usually goes through warm/cold cycles too, though my particular property can be fairly windy.

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Nikki - myMountainStudio link
11/18/2014 09:48:37 am

Thanks, Michelle. Not all of Montana does, especially Northern Montana and Eastern Montana. Our valley is referred to as the Banana Belt because of our warmer cycles down on the valley floor at 3500'. The higher elevations in the mountains stay colder, though. We also get tremendously high winds from time to time. Our weather is quite varied and unpredictable.

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