First 16 days of April were coldest, on average, ever
A bundled up Juniper Davis looks for eggs during the Lions Club Easter egg hunt Sunday. The first half of April was the coldest ever recorded. (Chris Peterson photo)
Hungry Horse News
The first half of April was the coldest ever, on average, the National Weather Service in Missoula reported.
The first 16 days of April saw a mean average temperature of just 30.3 degrees. The second coldest was 1953, when the 16-day mean average was 34.3 degrees.
Records date back to 1899.
The region’s snowpack is holding steady. The Flathead River Basin is at 102% of average.
While eastern Montana was pummeled with heavy snow and blizzard conditions last week, the Kalispell and Glacier National Park area saw far less, but it was very windy.
On Easter Sunday, kids gathered eggs through the flurries, though Sunday was actually somewhat pleasant, as it didn’t see the bone-chilling east and northeast wind that we had earlier in the week.
This week still promises to be unsettled, with snow and rain and highs in the 40s and 50s.