The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-03-26
Deposit During the Year in the
Mountains of Montana.
MAY NOT SUPPLY THE RIVERS
Only in the Mountains of Central
Montana Has the Normal Storage
of Snow AccumuIated-Month
Precipitation and Other CImat-
ology.

age snow in the mountains of Mon
tana, except in the ranges in the cen
trail part of the state, according to the
report of climatology for the month
of February, issued this week by Sec
ton Director E. J. Glass of the
weather bureau, although there was
good snowfall in the extreme east
ern and western portions. On the
subject of precipitation the report
says:
"The east portion has excess pre-
cipitation of 3S inch; central, O6
inch, and the west, 80 inch The
greatest departure from the normal
being an excess of 1.02 inches at
Troy, in the extreme northwest por-
ton of the state.
The greatest monthly precipitation
was 2.69 inches at Troy, and the
least, .05 inch at Fort Logan.
1.-THE greatest amount in any "a
consecutive hours was 1 inch, at Two
Dot, on the 8th.
melted) for the month was 24.7
inches at Ovando, and the least .05
inch at Fort Logan. The greatest
depth of snow that fell at any one
storm was 10 inches, at Two Dot, on
the Sth.
THE average number of rainy days
days on which .01 of an inch or
more of precipitation) for the entire
state was six.
'The average snowfall was great
est in the west and least in the cen
trial portion of the state; in the east
it was S.S inches; central, 81; and
1872 inches in the western portion.
"The precipitation was greatest
over Flathead, Missoula and Deer
Lodge counties, also over Valley,
Dawson and Fergus counties and the
west portion of Meagher county On
the last day of the month there re
manned on the ground inches of
snow at Culbertson, 2 inches at Glen
dive Ridgelawn and Butte 10 inches
at Poplar, l inch at Spring Brook, .O5
irch at Wibaux, 08 inch at Dillon,
trace at Abel and 2O.5 inches at
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snow that fell on the 9th and 28th.
There is decided deficiency Of
storage snow in all the mountains of
the state, with the exception of the
mountains in the central portion of
the state called the Big and Little
Belts, Crazy and Snowy mountain
ranges. On these mountains two Sc
we're snowstorms occurred during the
month of December, all of which was
drifted into canyons and ravines and
there solidified, so that it will re-
main far into the summer before it
melts entirely away
The records for the greatest total
precipitation for February were
broken at the following stations:
Big Timber, Glasgow, Glendive, Kali
lspell, Ovando, Parrot, Plains, Troy
and Yale"
On the subject of temperature, the
report says:
THE weather during the first ten
days was quite cold, every station
having reported temperatures zero or
below, On the 10th there was a de-
cided rise in the temperature over the
central and east portion, also at Deer
Lodge, Kalispell and Columbia Falls
in the west. Sudden falls in tempera-
ture, sufficient to verify a cold wave
occurred on the LIST at most of the
stations in the central portion of the
state: On the 9Th, at Abel, Augusta,
st. Peters and Deer Lodge; 9Th, at
Culbertson and Two Dot; 7th, at Pop
lar, Ridgelawn, Wibaux and Big Tim
Der; 18th, at Glasgow and Glendive;
14th, Culbertson, Poplar, Ridgelawn
and Two Dot The latter portion of
the month the weather was quite
pleasant and the high temperatures
caused the ground to thaw to such an
depth as to enable some blowing in
the western portion of the state.
THE departure from the normal
temperature shows an average ex
cess of 3.5 degrees in the east por.
ton, Wibaux being the only station
reporting a deficiency In the centra.
portion the excess was 3.S degrees
and in the west IL was rs degrees
The greatest excess was 90 degrees
at Grow agency, in the east; rs de
grees at Helena, in the central, anG
S.S degrees at Columbia Falls, in the
west portion.
THE monthly mean was highes
over the south central portion of The
state, and also over Flathead Mis-
coule opd Rova1li countiac in ths
west portion, it ranging from 1876 de
grees at Livingston to los degree!
at Culbertson.
"The lowest recorded temperature
for the month was 3S degrees below
at Ovando, on the list.
THE range for the month was 10
degrees. The greatest daily being A
degrees at Adel on the 9th. and a
Two Dot on the Sth.