The Weather 



Montana Is a Land of Sunshine, With 

 Short Winters and Pleasant Sum- 

 mer Nights — Weather Bureau Sta- 

 tistics Show Temperature of This 

 State Equal to That of More South- 

 ern Regions — What Others Say of 

 Montana's Excellent Climate. 



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The uninformed are often anxious to learn of -the climate in ^Montana, 

 and are invariably surprised when they learn the truth. For many years an 

 erroneous, though popular, impression to the effect that this is a land of 

 long and cold winters has prevailed in various sections of the 

 This Is a country. Nothing conld be farther from the truth, for even in 

 Land of winter the uncomfortably cold Montana day is the exception 



Sunshine. rather than the rule. The winter climate of Montana, as shown 

 by United States weather bureau statistics, is milder than that 

 of other states of the same latitude: in fact, a line of equal temperature, 

 drawn through Montana points, extends southward from this State and 

 swings eastward over portions of Iowa (see diagram), thus indicating that 

 the January climate of this .State is similar to that of Iowa. 



In ^\\\ discussion of Montana climate, however, much consideration 

 must be given the great area of the State and the great range of altitudes 

 here. Montana is two-thirds as large as the German empire; its altitude 

 ranges from the high peaks of the main range of the Rocky ^Mountain divide, 

 which crosses the State from north to south, to great areas of plains in the 

 eastern section, and valleys in the western sections which are but approxi- 

 mately 2,000 feet above the sea level. 



In Montana there are high mountain peaks which reach above the level 

 of perpetual snow ; there are sheltered valleys in which the wind scarcely 



-Time will tell a thrilling tale to many millions of marvelous Montana. 



