The cold snap s duration and bitterly cold daily high temps made it one of the most pernicious arctic blasts to grip the Treasure State. Although no all-time low temperature records were broken, many places set daily records for coldest lows on a given day, and daily records for the coldest high temps recorded on a given day.
Montana - Temperatures warmed into the 40s and 50s across the northern half of the state and the lower 60s south central. Kalispell was the exception, with afternoon temperatures in
Severe winter weather to impact Montana tonight through early next week
and last updated 2021-02-04 15:45:42-05
BOZEMAN â Severe winter weather will impact Montana and much of the northern half of the country through next week.
A large and stationary High-pressure ridge is parked off the NW coast. This is forcing the Polar Jet Stream to lift up into northern Canada and pull Arctic air down into Montana. There is also a fair amount of moisture in the N-NW flow aloft which will produce a long duration snow event beginning Thursday night and could linger through Sunday evening.
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Snow will be heavy at times especially over most mountain passes and for a few lower valleys as well and thus there are numerous Watches, Warnings, and Advisories up across the state.