But today there's this:
Some parts of northern Alaska are expected to get snow this week [snip]...
Starting Monday, rain is expected to turn into snowfall above 3,000 feet in the northeastern Brooks Range in northern Alaska, the National Weather Service said in a special weather statement.
By Tuesday morning, 5 inches of wet, heavy snow is expected above 4,000 feet and up to 3 inches above 3,000 feet, the weather service said.
I note with some interest that shoveling snow isn't as much fun as it once was, but we're about due for another snowy winter. And if these early predictors are any indication, it could be a long one, too.
It's only August ... right?
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We've noticed similar things here. Birds gathering together like they do right before they take off south, only way too early for that.
I'm not surprised to hear it, Matt. All the indications are that the weather patterns are changing everywhere.
The birch leaves out my window are just tired looking. Is that early onset of winter, or the delayed consequence of a below-average-snowfall winter (followed by a somewhat dry summer)?
laura ingalls wilder the long winter
it is part of a pattern, although things are changing
airphoria, "tired looking" is probably the lack of rain. Probably. The birch leaves here look fine, as we've had rain over the last month, but a few have already turned yellow and started to fall. Mixed signals..
deborah, I think we're seeing a paradigm shift toward colder weather. But I've been wrong before.
Our swallows line up on the power lines in rows...not yet, but they are flocking
threecollie, a sudden shift toward colder weather is coming. Maybe not this year - maybe - but it's coming.
Same here with the geese, Rev. Paul. Starting to hear them honking at night. And the maple down the road is turning color already. In July the sumac trees were changing, too. Hazel nuts are falling also and the squirrels are busy.
Chickenmom, understood. I'm hearing the same stories from relatives in the Midwest. Seems we're in for an early autumn.
Interstate 70, West side of the Eisenhower/Johnson tunnels, recently had snow but that is not unusual in Colorado.
WSF, that's some pretty country there. And you're right, of course. It would be a bit surprising if it didn't snow a bit at altitude, this time of year.
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