A FLOOD WATCH continues for parts of northwest Montana through Tuesday morning.
A powerful storm system has brought heavy rain, severe thunderstorms, large hail, damaging wind, mountain snow and much cooler temperatures over this Labor Day Weekend. That was some wild weather, and we're not out of the woods yet. The slow moving storm will continue to produce steady rain and high mountain snow for a lot of northern Montana into Tuesday morning. As the low pressure starts moving out on Tuesday, it will bring a period of cloudier, showery weather across most of central and northern Montana. Highs will be cool again, in the 50s and 60s. The wind will be gusty up to 30mph. The storm will finally clear out by Wednesday, which will be mostly sunny, windy and much warmer. Highs will top out in the 70s under sunny skies. Thursday will start out sunny but clouds will increase through the afternoon. Highs will be in the 70s and low 80s with a strong southwest wind. Thursday night, a front will move out of Canada and into Montana with areas of rain. Friday will start out mostly cloudy with showers, but skies will become partly cloudy by the afternoon. It will be cooler with highs in the 50s and 60s. This coming weekend looks wet again. Saturday will be on the cloudier side with just a few isolated showers. It will be cool with highs in the 50s to around 60. Sunday, a new storm system will move in with widespread rain in the lower elevations. This storm will have much colder air, and highs will only reach the 40s and 50s. Snow levels will drop. Right now snow could accumulate down below 6000' in some areas. As we get closer to this storm, I may have to adjust snow levels even lower. Labor Day Weekend is supposed to be the unofficial end to summer, and it certainly looks like fall has moved into Montana.
Have a great day,
Curtis Grevenitz
Chief Meteorologist
