You Got Your Solstice In My Equinox

Actually, that never really happens in Montana. Seasons seem to run pretty much on schedule, rarely intermingling.

The last couple years, the Scoop has noticed that things seem to happen almost to the day of the solstice or equinox. Spooky!

Like earlier this year in June, right after experiencing a single warm day that felt somewhat summer-like...BOOM... snow fell on Snowbowl to remind us that summer was not quite here.

I marked on my calendar that the last bits of snow fell on Snowbowl on June 15th, melting just a few days before the Summer Solstice. The summer then ran on-schedule for a long and hot 90-days.

And then yesterday, on the first day of the Autumnal Equinox, it snowed for the first time on Snowbowl, reminding us summer has come to a close.

Here is a picture (a little dark) of the first white peaks; unseen until the clouds cleared a little earlier this evening.

Snow often times marks the beginning and ending of summer, and did so in an especially timely manner this year.