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Montana Snow Pack and Precipitation

Montana snow pack and precipitation, February 1, 2010

by Wayne Mumford January 31, 2010

Is it February? January in western Montana was a wash in terms of precipitation, if anything we lost snow pack. I think I actually saw 50°f in town last week when the sun managed to find a hole to shine through. Other than the almost permanent cloud cover, it has been a pretty easy winter- [...]

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UFO or is the sun shining in northwest Montana

by Wayne Mumford January 13, 2010

I could probably count the days of total sunshine we have had since Thanksgiving on one hand. So when the sun has actually shown up the last few weeks, it’s a big deal. Kinda like experiencing an eclipse or encountering a UFO; living things start acting sort of funny. Dogs start frolicking around and barking, [...]

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El Legarto

by Wayne Mumford January 8, 2010

Or Alligator, from the name the Spanish explorers gave to the American Alligator; like this one that was killed by a hunter recently in Florida.
Somehow I feel more comfortable with a few grizzly bears running around the woods than I would going fishing where something this size was hanging out. And I damn sure wouldn’t [...]

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The Montana weather thing

by Wayne Mumford January 7, 2010

Not even a week ago I was sniveling about the balmy conditions. Mud, slush and slop. Well, it took about 24 hours starting Monday to go from 45°F to 0° by Tuesday am and to continue its decent to an arctic -17° last night. Right before going over the temperture cliff we got a pretty [...]

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Carved Fish, wood carved that is!

by Wayne Mumford January 6, 2010

Is Matt Zudweg an exceptionally talented traditional sign painter with a fishing problem or another obsessed fisherman working (in this case, painting and carving signs) to support his fishing habit? I am inclined to say that from the quality of his work it’s all the above.

Matt hails from Howard City, Michigan where he spreads his [...]

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Half empty or half full?

by Wayne Mumford January 2, 2010

It was in the mid 40’s today in Kalispell. Slush, mud, water and whats left of the snow. Almost a late December thaw instead of the usual January thaw and quite honestly there isn’t much to thaw. You’d have to get up into the 5,000 foot range to find any real measurable snow in this [...]

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Fall 2008 instant replay

by Wayne Mumford December 14, 2009

Last week was numbingly cold, cold enough for the first time this season to reevaluate what cold really is, that is, at what point does fighting with frozen equipment, body parts and the struggle for warmth break you down to the point of just plopping down in a snow drift and letting yourself succumb to [...]

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Montana precipitation or lack of- December,3 2009

by Wayne Mumford December 3, 2009

The weather in western Montana has been about as flaky as it gets since the middle of the fall. October started out with a cold snap that set records for low temperatures.
Fall colors were just getting going good and the single digit temperatures ended it before it really got going. So, it was sort of [...]

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