Snowing in June?

[T...K21]

Just out of curiosity... Does anybody else get snow at this time of year?

[BobSch]

Just out of curiosity... Does anybody else get snow at this time of year?

Not here in the Cities, but it's been known up north.

[leehljp]

In mid June in 1989, my family and I drove through Bear Tooth Pass in Montana and right into a white out! It was scarry! We made and and our then 6 year old kept singing Jingle Bells from the back seat!

[TB Roye]

Last week in the Sierras east of Sacramento. Not that unusual though. I have seen it snow on the 4 of July up there.

Tom

[LCHIEN]

I recall snow flurries at the peak of Mt. Haleakela on Maui in July

[cabinetman]

We don't get snow at any time of the year (usually), except for one day in 1975, not June, and it was very light.

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[tommyt654]

We don't get snow at any time of the year (usually), except for one day in 1975, not June, and it was very light.

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I remember that snow, I was in Tampa,1st time I had seen any in a while, I recall it was in Jan. me thinks

[Pappy]

Mid 70's at night, pushing the Century mark in the afternoon.......NOPE!

[cabinetman]

I remember that snow, I was in Tampa,1st time I had seen any in a while, I recall it was in Jan. me thinks

I remember driving to the shop early in the morning, and it looked like it was drizzling, but in slow motion. So, I put on my wipers, and there wasn't any water on the windshield. It was snow flakes.

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[Richard in Smithville]

In my part of Ontario it's usually hitting summer by now, but this being Canada, I'm sure there is snow not too far north of me.

[pelligrini]

If we'd get snow here in Fort Worth,TX in June there are going to be a whole lot of other problems throughout the world...

In mid June in 1989, my family and I drove through Bear Tooth Pass in Montana and right into a white out! It was scarry! We made and and our then 6 year old kept singing Jingle Bells from the back seat!

My favorite area! It's not uncommon for that pass to get closed in June.

My first time up there was in '88 when Yellowstone was burning, went back in '89 and spend a month up there by myself packing around in '90 or '91. All these trips were in late July or August. There were still some hard packs on the ground. I watched a family of weasels playing on the snow one day.

I dropped my family off in Rock Springs in '97 had headed through Yellowstone to the Beartooth. It was the first week of June. I took a fire road in for a couple miles to the edge of the wilderness area on the Wyoming side of the ridge, then packed in a few more miles. I woke up that night around 5:00 freezing my tail off. Looked outside and there was 4" of snow on the tent and ground. I packed back out at first light and had a white knuckle ride on that rough fire road. By the time I finished my breakfast at a diner in Silvergate (trying to thaw out) there was 9" of snow on the ground. I also heard that the pass was closed too. I headed back to some lower elevations, as I didn't have any cold weather gear.

I did find some neoprene booties and some fingerless gloves at a shop in West Yellowstone. The booties were necessary to keep my feet from freezing. My boots were taking on water, as a lot of the meadows I hiked in the previous years were more of a marsh in June.

I caught some more snow again on an overnight hike into Grebe lake in the park when I headed in there to go after some greyling.

I prefer the higher elevations later in the summer.

[jackellis]

It's happened up here at 6000 feet. The weekend we were married (June 22) we had nice weather for the wedding and reception on Sunday, then hail, sleet, thunder and some snow the following day. I think we had some snow early last week, come to think of it.

[jackellis]

Truckee is 14 miles north, South Lake Tahoe is about the same distance to the southeast. Note the low temps (below freezing).

MONTHLY WEATHER ALMANAC FOR JUNE
TRUCKEE

High: 84, on June 17
Low: 23, on June 10
Average temp: 52.2
Departure from norm: -1.4
Precipitation: .13
Normal precip for the entire month: .73
Percent of normal for the month: 18 percent
Total snowfall: 0 inches


SOUTH LAKE TAHOE
High: 84 on June 17
Low: 27 on June 6, 10
Average temp: 54.4
Departure from norm: +.9
Precipitation (water content): .44
Normal precip for the month: .61 inches
Percent of normal for the entire month: 72 percent
Total snowfall: 0 inches

Monday's forecast calls for a high of 58 and a low of 34 less than two weeks before July 4th.

[leehljp]

Jack, I would certainly have trouble raising tomatoes in that kind of temperature lows. I guess I could get a double insulated green house!

[TB Roye]

Truckee is the second coldest place in California in the winter. Bridgeport is the coldest. When I worked for the CHP equipping new vehicles The cars going to Truckee and Bridgeport alway had there coolant adjusted for the lower temp before being shipped out.
Truckee sits in a big bowl and Bridgeport is up against the the eastern side of the Sierras and is in a valley and exposed to wind.

Supposed to rain up there all weekend.

Tom