We experienced what some folks call a “weather event” at my house yesterday. In my hometown of East Helena, Montana, we put the same thing in this manner: “it rained and snowed like a summa-bitch.”
To be precise, I captured nearly 2 inches of
precipitation in my rain gauge between 10 pm Tuesday night and 9 am Wednesday
morning—some 11 hours. While that might be a standard fare in in the monsoon tropics,
such levels of moisture are remarkable here at the edge of the Rocky Mountain
rain shadow. The city of Helena, a few miles southwest of me, receives
somewhere between 11 and 14 inches of rain on an annual basis. I am guessing I get 3 or so inches less than
Helena.
So, 2 inches of rain is a pretty big deal around
here.
A morning trip to Helena to get my haircut at
Dundee’s Barber shop delivered me into gradually increasing levels of snow.
Dundee told me her home in the mountains south caught a foot heavy, wet snow
that brought down trees and electrical lines and caused a power outage.
I am sharing a few images from our “weather event.”
—Mitchell Hegman
Bayawan weather report: Warm and sunny, yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
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