Thanks Squirrel for the great Pic's!!
Reminds me a lot of the evening that i took my buck in Wyoming this year. Looking up on the ridge side, that a lot of the deer in the area were holding on in that storm, was needed but painful to do with all the frozen rain blasting into our eyes, optics, and face.
One good thing about a storm like that, maybe in your photo's case too, is that deer will use the lee side of a ridge to get under and out of the main blast of winds and storm. A person knowing this, can use this info to concentrate his search to those areas with that kind or terrain.
In our case, it was late in the season, almost Nov, as well so there were new bucks that we had not seen before included in the groups of deer trying to get out of the storm. The buck i took was no monster but one of the better we saw on that trip and we may not have found him at all if not for that storm.
Joey