Alaska Snow

[BIGNASTY]

I dont think that I will complain about MT snow this year. Alaska got 18 FEET of snow. In a short period of time.

 

[GHarman]

Yeah, buddy! I have a good friend who lives near Wasilla, He was down here for Christmas. He mentioned, when he got home there was "alot of snow" to move. He wasnt specific. I'll ask him! GregH

 

[BIGNASTY]

Thats a crazy amount of snow.

 

[GHarman]

Hey BIG, Just got an email from Alaska. Only 5' on his roof. The big snows were in S. E. coastal Alaska. GregH

 

[Tractorat]

20 feet ? Thats nothing. Mt Rainier gets almost a hundred feet of snow. Snowiest place in the world.

 

[GHarman]

Tractorat, Anybody live on Mt Rainier? GregH

 

[Tractorat]

Sasquatch and his family

 

[GHarman]

We ought to get him to run fer POTUS:-laf, Anybody that can handle that much snow and raise a family has got to have their act together! GregH

 

[NIsaacs]

The winter of '66-'67 was a bad one in south eastern Montana. That spring, my dad and I were checking fence when we run across a deer carcass in the top of a 70 ft. pine tree. It was growing in the bottom of a small canyon that we figured had been blown level with snow. I guess trying to cross on top of the snow he fell through the crust and got stuck.



Nick

 

[BIGNASTY]

Tractorat, Anybody live on Mt Rainier? GregH

:-laf:-laf Was thinking the same thing 14,000 feet is pretty high to live in the mountains



MT snows do get bad my FIL has some pic's of when he and the MIL built their house In Seeley they lived in a TEE PEE and built the house and went to work everyday. The TEE PEE was covered with snow and all you could see was the top of the poles that crossed and the flap that covered the door. that's pretty deep snow considering that TEE PEE is 20 plus ft tall at the top



our avg. is nothing compared to AK General Area Statistical Information

Temperature

Mean winter temperatures are 15-20 degrees F.

Mean summer temperature is 78 degrees F.

High summer temperature is 90 degrees F.

Lowest winter temperature is -40 degrees F.



Precipitation

Rainfall is 10 inches average

Valley Snowfall is 140 inches average

Total precipitation is 20 inches average



Elevations:

Valley floor average 4000 feet.

Holland Peak (Swan Range) is 9,365 feet

McDonald Peak (Mission Range) is 9,865 feet

Summit Lake is 4300 feet



Area: unincorporated communities in Missoula County; 60 miles to Missoula



Population

Seeley Lake (year round) 2,000

Seeley Lake (summer) 4,000-plus

Condon/Swan Valley 800



Elementary Schools

Seeley Lake: 280 students

Swan Valley (Condon): 96 students

Salmon Prairie: 13 students

Ovando: 30 students

Potomac: 126 students

Sunset Hill: 10 students



High School

Seeley-Swan High School: 140 students



Land Mass Ownership

40% U. S. Forest Service

35% Plum Creek Lumber Co.

15% State of Montana

 

[MLee]

Plus that poor town was bracing for another hit this week. We should all get together and send them our SNOW shovels as they don't have any available to move the snow, we don't need them this year, NO SNOW, DRY&DUSTY.

 

[BIGNASTY]

I will keep mine THANK YOU I dont belive that its thru snowing here yet

 

[GHarman]

We're just getting started! Spring snows are when we get hit hard! GregH

 

[BIGNASTY]

Beautiful here today but home weather station watch out next few days

 

[KLauber]

Gonna get down to 27 tonight. TWENTY SEVENNN! what is this world coming to??

 

[BIGNASTY]

Come on Ken I would be embarrassed :-laf That's cold for you guys!!! ours is in the teens at nite and low to mid 30's in the day. Still the guys in AK are laughing at us.

 

[GHarman]

It was 7*F when I got up. Its 14*F right now. Sun is shining and hopefully it will warm up to 27*F:-laf. GregH

 

[BIGNASTY]

IT'S A TROPICAL HEAT WAVE (GLOBAL WARMMING) must be the culprit

 

[Tractorat]

There is a heat wave going on. I talked to my aunt in "Frostbite Falls" Mn the other night. She says its been above zero most of the time this year. She likes it when it gets below minus 20 degrees. Those crazy Minnesotans.

 

[GHarman]

Ooffdah:-laf! GregH