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[BIGNASTY]

This is what you look for when ya come home to relax wish it were mine. Mine is about 1/2 mile away great squrriel shooting field

 

[Blu-meanie]

What does it look like in winter?

 

[mwilson]

What does it look like in winter?

Probably can't even see the chimney sticking up above the snowdrifts... ..... :-laf





Mike.

 

[BIGNASTY]

Probably can't even see the chimney sticking up above the snowdrifts... ..... :-laf





Mike.

It's not that bad it's not as bad as Caribou ME spent some time there. The snow is allot drier here than ME so it pushes easy with our tractor. We were watching TV last night Frontier Force on the Nat Geo channel they showed people in the East of MT and they were crying that the snow was so bad. By the looks of the show they didnt have to much to cry about. They lost power so I guess the water pumps didnt work. SO MUCH FOR BEING PREPARED. If it does get that bad that we cant get the trucks out we can fire up the Yamaha snowmobile and go to town or what ever we have to do. It's nothing anyone else that lives in this type of country hasnt got prepared for. I WOULD HOPE ANY WAY, Sense moving to MT I have found that people are VERY independent and DONT WANT OR NEED YOUR OR MY HELP 90 % of the time. If it get's real bad I get up and put another log on the fire and pop open another Barley soda

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 Montana Weather





An interesting Montana fact is that Montana's weather is not nearly as disastrous as most would think. While the climate in Glacier National Park can be frigid during the winter, much of Montana is relatively mild. The reason for this is the state's dryness. So, no matter how cold or hot it gets, the weather doesn't feel too oppressive



Also, the Continental Divide, which runs through the western half of Montana, separates Montana into two distinct weather patterns. The west half of the Continental Divide is actually similar to Colorado's weather, just a tad colder. However, the eastern half of Montana can be terribly cold and windy at times as the Chinook winds gust down the mountain slopes and grip the valleys below.