# Has it ever snowed in Siberia in July? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 16, 2006, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-it-ever-snowed-in-siberia-in-july/352899 "2006-04-16T19:23:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![uahal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/8797f3/32.png) [@uahal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uahal)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-it-ever-snowed-in-siberia-in-july/352899/1 "2006-04-16T19:23:04Z")
For that matter, has it ever snowed anywhere in July? My knucklehead betting buddy and I just found this wonderful, hilarious community. Thanks in advance for the help. ---
**Author:** ![ticker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@ticker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ticker)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-it-ever-snowed-in-siberia-in-july/352899/2 "2006-04-16T19:29:38Z")
I have been snowed on in Switzerland in 1st week of August. Not that uncommon in mountainous areas. ---
**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-it-ever-snowed-in-siberia-in-july/352899/3 "2006-04-16T19:31:31Z")
I’ve seen it snow in every month when we lived in Wyoming. I would think snow in July would be common in the Southern Hemisphere. ---
**Author:** ![Ludy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Ludy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludy)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-it-ever-snowed-in-siberia-in-july/352899/4 "2006-04-16T19:43:54Z")
I has snowed in Banff in almost every month. Not while I was there, but people I know who lived there longer insist that it happens. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-it-ever-snowed-in-siberia-in-july/352899/5 "2006-04-16T20:24:44Z")
I’ve been snowed on in July in New Mexico. As phrased, > [@](#): > > has it ever snowed anywhere in July? rather immediately conjures up southern-hemisphere answers though. I suspect it snows pretty heavily in Patagonia during _every_ July, that being midwinter down there. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-it-ever-snowed-in-siberia-in-july/352899/6 "2006-04-16T20:36:41Z")
> [@Ludy](#): > > I has snowed in Banff in almost every month. Not while I was there, but people I know who lived there longer insist that it happens. Last summer we got a scattering up on the Icefields Parkway. In August. And then got sunburnt twentyfour hours later in Canmore. :S ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-it-ever-snowed-in-siberia-in-july/352899/7 "2006-04-16T20:50:56Z")
We had snow on July 31st one time when we drove from the North Rim of the Grand Canyon towards Jacob Lake. This was about 8000 feet of altitude. Given that Siberia is much further north than the Grand Canyon, is the coldest region in the northern hemisphere, and has elevations as high as 6200 feet, I have no doubt that it’s snowed there in July. Given that summer in the Polar Ural region of siberia is not considered to have begun until mid July, I’d say you can bet on it. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-it-ever-snowed-in-siberia-in-july/352899/8 "2006-04-16T21:11:42Z")
Shiver your way through [The Year There Was No Summer](http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/history/1816.htm). And there were [tremendous consequences](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_A_Summer): > [@](#): > > Many historians cite the year without a summer as a primary motivation for the rapid settlement of what is now the American Midwest. Many New Englanders were wiped out by the year, and tens of thousands struck out for the richer soil and better growing conditions of the Upper Midwest (then the Northwest Territory). (A specific instance of this was when the family of Joseph Smith, eventual founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, moved from Sharon, Vermont to Palmyra, New York in far western New York state after several crop failures.) While crops had been poor for several years, the final blow came in 1815 with the eruption of Tambora. > > … > > In July 1816 “incessant rainfall” during that “wet, ungenial summer” forced Mary Shelley, John William Polidori and their friends to stay indoors for much of their Swiss holiday, leading Shelley to write Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus and Polidori to write The Vampyre.