World's Largest Snowflakes Fall in Montana: 15 Inches Across
The ranchers couldn't believe their eyes. Snowflakes bigger than dinner plates were floating down from the Montana sky, each crystalline monster measuring 15 inches across - wider than most cowboy hats. And not just big: these were architectural marvels of frozen water, thick as a hardcover book and dense enough to blanket the Fort Keogh landscape in an instant. Witnesses swore they'd never seen anything like it: snowflakes so massive they seemed more like falling sheets of white than delicate winter fragments.
January 28, 1887
139 years ago
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