There’s yet another weekend of summer time earlier than it’s formally fall within the Northern Hemisphere. However you wouldn’t have guessed it was nonetheless summer time a couple of weeks in the past in Glacier Nationwide Park. A summer time snow storm shut down Glacier’s in style Going-to-the-Solar Street, and the pictures are a bit stunning (particularly for these of us who dwell in heat climates).
Glacier Nationwide Park is in northern Montana, near the Canada/U.S. border. Certain, it will get chilly there, typically even in the summertime season . . . nevertheless it’s not normally this chilly.
Tonya Monarch Lonsbury drives a tour bus in Glacier, and he or she lately shared her expertise getting caught within the snow on the Going-to-the-Solar Street for over 2.5 hours. Her company bought out, fortunately, however she and several other different bus drivers have been there for fairly some time as they waited for crews to get the roads as much as par earlier than they may transfer on.
“Do you wanna construct a snowman?” Lonsbury asks in her Instagram caption sharing pictures and movies of the summer time snow storm in Glacier. “Happening as essentially the most memorable day of the season, lol!! [. . .] Blizzard in August!”
See Lonsbury’s pictures and movies right here:
Is Summer season Snow Regular in Glacier?
No. The Nationwide Park Service (NPS) has a graphic on the Glacier Nationwide Park web page with common temperatures and precipitation numbers for West Glacier, Montana. In August, the common minimal temperature is 35°F and the common most is 82°F. Over a 30-year interval, the common August snowfall in West Glacier is 0 inches.
Clearly, this August was totally different.
Has the climate ever shocked you whereas visiting a nationwide park?
