High mountain climate
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8/18/2006
Fallon is a nice little town with two seasons due to it's high elevation. We have 7 months of winter (mid-Oct thru mid-May) and 5 months of summer (late May thru early Oct). Its very dry, though these last two winters we had a lot of snow. Seems most of the precipitation is snow, not rain. We have something called Po-go-nip, Paiute word meaning "white death", its a snow fog that we had two years ago for a month straight. The daily high never got over 32 degrees and we didn't se the sun at my house for 30 days straight. We put our fireplace to good use that winter!
Susan | Fallon, NV