Where is the Snow in Billings?
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Where is the Snow in Billings?
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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT
643 AM MST WED NOV 14 2007
...WHERE IS THE SNOW IN BILLINGS?...
AS OF NOVEMBER 13TH...A MEASURABLE SNOWFALL HAD NOT YET BEEN
OBSERVED AT BILLINGS THIS SEASON. OFFICIAL SNOWFALL MEASUREMENTS
ARE TAKEN AT THE BILLINGS AIRPORT...AND A MEASURABLE SNOWFALL IS
DEFINED AS A TENTH OF AN INCH OR MORE. A TRACE IS NOT CONSIDERED
MEASURABLE.
SINCE RECORDS BEGAN IN 1934...ONLY 7 TIMES HAS A FIRST MEASURABLE
SNOWFALL OCCURRED LATER THAN THE CURRENT SEASON. THE LATEST FIRST
MEASURABLE SNOWFALL ON RECORD WAS ON DECEMBER 21ST IN 1939.
DESPITE THE VERY LATE START...39.2 INCHES OF SNOW FELL DURING THE
1939-1940 WINTER. THE AVERAGE DATE OF FIRST MEASURABLE SNOWFALL IS
OCTOBER 16TH...THUS WE ARE ALREADY A MONTH BEHIND NORMAL. THE
EARLIEST MEASURABLE SNOWFALL WAS ON SEPTEMBER 7 IN 1962.
THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF THE 7 LATEST FIRST MEASURABLE SNOWFALLS
AT BILLINGS:
DECEMBER 21 1939
DECEMBER 15 1953
NOVEMBER 25 1943
NOVEMBER 20 1948
NOVEMBER 19 2004
NOVEMBER 18 1964
NOVEMBER 17 1994
NO SNOWFALL IS EXPECTED AT BILLINGS THROUGH AT LEAST SATURDAY THE
17TH. CURRENT INDICATIONS ARE THAT A COLDER WEATHER PATTERN MAY
EMERGE EARLY NEXT WEEK...AND IT IS POSSIBLE THIS COULD LEAD TO OUR
FIRST MEASURABLE SNOWFALL.
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