The National Weather Service is predicting a "colder than average" winter in Montana, which may just be an odd's-on bet after the past week.
On ther other hand, it may be time for a few colder winters, after a decade or two of milder winters (with one or two exceptions). Which convinced a lot of people that Montana was LA North.
When I first started hunting in Montana in the 1960's, there was snow on the ground about half the time on opening day of the big game rifle season in the mountains, though most of the time admittedly not much.
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.” John Steinbeck
