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Rare Summer Snow Clips Montana's Peaks

Montana got an early taste of winter this week. The NWS even issued a Winter Weather Advisory for Glacier 
National Park and the Mission Mountains, as an unusual August snowstorm swept through the region.

On Wednesday, August 28, a myriad of Montana ski areas reported fresh accumulating snow.

Whitefish Mountain Resort was one of them. By 10 AM, noteworthy snow was settling as low as 5,800 feet, 
including at the resort's upper terminals of Chair 1 and Chair 7:

"This has got to be a new record," remarked Chad Sokol, Whitefish's Public Relations Manager. "An unheard-of 
late-August squall delivered a solid inch of snow to the summit this morning, along with a visible dusting 
across the upper 1,000 feet of Big Mountain. ... measurable snow this time of year? We didn't see that 
coming."

Whitefish wasn't alone. Bridger Bowl Ski Area also reported its first snow of the season, as did a host of 
others.

The storm actually intensified at Glacier National Park's Logan Pass. By late-morning, the NWS reported 
increasing snowfall rates, with forecasts predicting between as much as 7 inches of snow at the Logan Pass 
Visitor's Center by day's end.

This is the same Glacier National Park (GNP) that, back in late-2019, was forced to take down all of its 
visitor center signs that declared glaciers at the Park would be disappeared by the year 2020 due to the 
ravages of global boiling.

All signs were sheepishly pulled from its displays after the computer models it relied upon from the early 
2000s, which foretold of unending glacial retreat, turned out to be garbage-in garbage-out.

"Larger than average snowfall over several winters slowed down that retreat rate and the 2020 date used in 
the display does not apply anymore," said the USGS at the time, an agency tasked with monitoring the glaciers 
at GNP.

Since then, an all-time record-smashing snow season hit in 2022-23. This was followed by the well-above-
average season just gone. And now, 2024-25 appears to have started in earnest, in August! an early taste of 
winter that has certainly stirred the excitement. As one Instagramer put it, "I've seen enough. Open the 
lifts."

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