Heat! Snow!

[tagryn]

We've been under heat warnings since Friday, with heat indexes well into the 100s all weekend. Its a nasty mix of heat and humidity; Donna's thoughts about this development are here. Fortunately there's a cold front coming through tonight which should break its hold on the DC/SoMD/Baltimore area, so it'll "only" be in the high 80s tomorrow. That's supposed to made a world of difference in how it feels outside, though. I'll just be happy if we can leave the windows open at night, instead of having to keep the house closed up.

On the flip side...the Bitterroot mountains on the Montana/Idaho border are scheduled to experience some serious snowfall, with nearly a foot projected for the area. Here's the Missoula forecast:

...A VERY STRONG WINTER-LIKE STORM WILL BRING HEAVY WET SNOW TO
THE AREA TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY..
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MISSOULA HAS ISSUED A HEAVY SNOW
WARNING ABOVE 4000 FEET...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM MDT /8 PM
PDT/ THIS EVENING TO 12 PM MDT /11 AM PDT/ WEDNESDAY. THE SNOW
ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELED.

TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 6 TO 10 INCHES ARE EXPECTED BY LATE
MORNING WEDNESDAY ABOVE 4000 FEET. THE HEAVIEST SNOWFALL
ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED IN AREAS NORTH OF AND ALONG HIGHWAY
12. ..INCLUDING LOLO PASS. AMOUNTS OF 3 TO 6 INCHES CAN BE EXPECTED
ELSEWHERE ABOVE 3500 FEET.

Webcam for Lolo Pass
Webcams for Lookout Pass
Idaho mountain pass cameras

And for an amusing "404" message, click on camera 2 here for the Snoqualmie Pass in WA.

Comments

[foomf.livejournal.com]

The year I was born, in Meagher County, Montana (Townsend, because it was the random choice of the 3 hospitals equally distant from White Sulphur Springs) ... it snowed that week, according to my mom. July 16th.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Wow.

I hope y'all made it through just fine. Ugh on the extremes!!

[tagryn]

The really bad stuff broke Tuesday night, now we're just in the high 80s with lower humidity. But frankly, I think the tomatoes and gardenias just soaked it up and are saying "more! more!" All of a sudden I'm getting flowers on my one gardenia, and the tomatoes seem to have started their mad-dash growing phase. I noticed our first flowers on the tomatoes a couple days ago, for example.

Could be worse, we could be living in, say, Florida? 8)
(actually not, Donna has that on her no-frickin-way-are-we-moving-there list because of the humidity during the summer)

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, tomatoes *love* the heat.