Say it ain't so or snow

[Donna D.]

When I was a kid, and I'm not youngster, my mother tried to plan a BBQ and picnic on July 4th in the Denver area... it snowed... so we had s'mores and oven/broiler created hamburgers instead.

[Carol H]

Originally Posted by honda03842

It even snowed in Calgary once in July, when 0.3 centimeter (0.1 inch) fell on July 23, 1918.
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Hummm I am going to guess they only record it as having actually snowed if the ground is cold enough to allow it to accumulate so it can be measured. I worked summers as a teen at a horse ranch just outside of Calgary and I recall one day in July when what I would call slushy snow coming down hard. Although I may be old I assure you it wasn't in 1918 either Suspect there are few long time Calgarian's here who have seen the slush coming down in summer months before as well.

[2yax2go]

Woke up to snow at Fishing Bridge RV Park in Yellowstone this morning.

Flurried all the way into the Tetons where we were greeted by some very nicely dressed mountain peaks.

[Wyowill]

We have about 3 inches of wet sloppy snow here in Casper Wy this evening.
My Dad used to say "We have winter and July 4th, and sometimes it snows during the fireworks"

Will

[Ice-breaker]

Originally Posted by honda03842

Climate change is an interesting move from Global Warming. Weather (pun) it flood or drought it's a climate 'change'. That's called a no lose position or the politician's choice.

1816 was a year with out a summer, also called the Poverty Year, caused by low solar activity, the end of the Little Ice Age and a volcanic eruption.

Don't know about that climate change stuff. We just call it weather.

[Roy in TO]

Polar Vortex was the buzz phrase last year, I got a feeling they are not done with it yet.
The good piece in the news yesterday was that all the efforts on banning CFC's in spray cans is working, the Ozone layer is reported to be on the mend.

[Pam Garlow]

I could not live there...

[Jim Bennett]

Originally Posted by David Tilston

I live in a neighborhood with mature elem trees. It looks like a disaster area. Our tree was unscathed though.

Yeah, there were a few tree lined streets that were impassible until the city cleared all the folial carnage. LOTS of downed branches on the deciduous trees. Heck, they were nowhere near turning colour yet either.

[David Tilston]

Tomorrow, my teenagers and I are going out with my Ryobi 18V chainsaw to help clean-up.

[Imo.]

Woke up yesterday to 5 inches snow in Browning, Mont. Drove thru spitting snow from Havre to Browning on weds..snug in sis' s house, casita looks lonely in drive way. Glacier peaks a little way off are snow covered. A few campers at 2-medicine yesterday. Snow melting fast.

[melissab]

That's it I'm getting in my car and driving North til my Temp gauge drops below 90 degees! lol

[TomK]

Originally Posted by melissab

That's it I'm getting in my car and driving North til my Temp gauge drops below 90 degees! lol

Years ago a co-worker quit his job in MI. He had enough of winter weather. We asked him where he was going? He said he was going to put an ice scraper in his shirt pocket, and a snow shovel over his shoulder, and head south. When someone asked him "What are those?", he would find a home nearby and live there. He ended up in S.Carolina.

Tom

[honda03842]

There are lots of ways to measure temperature.

While Ginny cooks the eggs and bacon, I make make the toast and butter it. This morning the butter was hard, a sign that summer is gone.

For the first time since returning home in the spring I turned the furnace on, mainly as a test.

It definitely feels like summer is gone.