Summer snow rolls in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, as well as Germany, Austria, Italy, and Slovenia

Winter weather advisories have been issued by the National Weather Service for parts of the Rockies of Montana and Wyoming, where the NWS said a few inches of wet snow is possible early Monday into early Tuesday above 6,000 feet in elevation.

Accumulating snow is expected in the highest peaks of northwestern Wyoming, southern and western Montana and adjacent portions of Idaho.

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“Snow is not uncommon in the higher elevations of the northern Rockies in late August,” says weather.com.

Normal?

“Of course, they’re the same people who keep on harping about ‘global warming.’ Which is it?” asks Anthony Watts of Watts Up with That?, a meteorologist who spent 25 years on the air and who also operates a weather technology and content business.

“Amazing photos on social networks show snow in parts of Europe as the temperatures plummet 15 degrees or more,” reported Nature, Weather, Climate. site. “…Austrians and the Germans felt on Sunday the foretaste of the approaching winter…”

Here’s the scene they described: “Winter landscapes reign in Salzburg – but according to WetterOnline – snowfall was recorded even in areas located at an altitude of less than 1000 m above sea level. For example, the inhabitants of the ski town of Bad Gastein, located south of Salzburg, sundered their eyes with astonishment on Sunday because green lawns and the leaves on trees covered a 5-cm layer of snow. Caps and jackets had to be taken out on Sunday by the inhabitants of Obertauern, Rauris, Sankt Jakob in Defereggental or Hintertux, where the first snow dropped a month earlier than usual.”