30 September 2019 — 1546 mdt

What my front yard looked like after the big storm

I live approximately two miles NW of Kalispell. Although the east side of the valley was raked by high winds, my location wasn’t. There were a few rain showers. No snow. But there’s new snow on the Swan Range, 15 miles to the east. And the temperature is approximately 15 degrees below average for late September.

The barometric pressure, which I checked hourly, never fell more than a few hundredths inch of mercury. It’s now at 30.07 inHg sea level equivalent (the station pressure is 26.98 inHg). Given the NWS’s dire forecast, I expected the pressure would decrease significantly, but it didn’t. I know the source of my error: ignorance; I’m not a meteorologist.

The storm’s great irony, of course, is that it commenced on the last day of the week-long climate strike protesting global warming.