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Weather Forecast: Rain and snow moves in Wednesday
and last updated 2021-05-19 09:43:24-04
MISSOULA â Wednesday will start off dry with mostly to partly cloudy skies. By the afternoon valley rain and mountain snow will develop for west-central and southwest Montana along with areas closer towards the divide (Seeley/Swan Valley). Northwest Montana, including the Mission and Flathead Valleys will stay mostly dry today with rain showers developing here by late afternoon and evening.
Widespread valley rain and mountain snow will continue overnight Wednesday into Thursday. High temperatures Thursday will only top out in 40s to low 50s.
Winter Weather Advisories and Winter Storm Warnings have been issued for the mountains across western Montana starting Wednesday and continuing through Friday. MacDonald, Rogers and Homestake Passes could see 6 -to-10 of snow, Lolo and Lost Trail Passes could see 5 -to-8 of snow, Lookout Pass could see 4 -to-6 of snow. Marias Pass along with
Severe storm threat keeps trucking through Plains this week
Severe winds, large hail, tornadoes, flash flooding all possible (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)
Check out this baseball sized hail that fell in Snyder just a few moments ago! Picture from Brandi Garza. #txwxpic.twitter.com/VInmSXfPGX Austin Burkes (@AustinBurkeswx) May 17, 2021
Severe storms slammed the nation’s heartland over the weekend from Texas and New Mexico to Colorado, Utah and the Central Plains. Truckers will likely hit more rough weather in these areas, plus others, almost each day this week.
According to the National Weather Service (NWS), thunderstorm wind gusts exceeded 70 mph in parts of Texas and Utah, and softball size hail was reported in Snyder, Texas. Flash flooding swept through a few states, with weekend rain totals of more than 8 inches in parts of Kansas. Five tornadoes popped up Saturday through Sunday, touching down in Colorado, Texas and South Dakota.
Storm system to unload late-season snow in Northwest AccuWeather 2 hrs ago Jessica Storm
A big change in the weather pattern will unfold across the northwestern United States this week, with areas of rain, thunderstorms and even heavy snow forecast for the region.
Temperatures in the Northwest have been generally above average for about a week. Seattle, which usually stays in the mid-60s throughout May, has had high temperatures in the 70s since last Tuesday. Temperatures even reached into the 80s over the weekend in Portland, Oregon.
Conditions will continue to be warm, particularly inland, Monday, except near the Pacific coast and where precipitation begins to move onshore.
Expect a showery, cool Sunday
Winter Weather Advisory
and last updated 2021-04-24 17:31:39-04
MISSOULA â Itâs been a cool, and for many, showery start to the weekend across the region. Weâre under the influence of a moist west/northwesterly flow which is spreading consistent moisture into the region. This weather pattern will persist through Monday before we see a warming and drying trend for Tuesday and beyond.
For the overnight hours and into Sunday we can expect to see scattered and generally light showers in the valleys of western Montana. When weâre not seeing showers, we can expect a pretty good cloud cover with highs reaching the lower to middle 50s for most. The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Weather Advisory for the West Glacier Region from late Saturday afternoon through early Sunday morning. Marias Pass and other locations above 4500 feet can expect to see about 3 to 5 inches of snow during this time period.