Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers...scattered rain and snow showers in the mountains. Windy. Lows 30 to 40. Southwest winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 50 mph.
Tuesday
Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers in the morning. A chance of rain and snow showers in the morning. In the mountains...a chance of rain and snow showers in the morning... then a slight chance of snow showers in the afternoon. Windy. Highs 45 to 55...35 to 45 in the mountains. West winds 20 to 30 mph. Gusts up to 55 mph...decreasing to 35 mph in the afternoon.
There are currently no warnings or advisories for this location.
Record Report
Statement as of 9:36 PM EDT on October 13, 2008
...Record Low Temperatures For Oct 13 In North Central And &Nbsp;&Nbsp;&Nbsp;Southwest Montana...
Location new record old record year set Townsend 15 16 1949
... Record high snowfall for Oct 13 in north central and southwest Montana...
Location new record old record year set
Townsend 0.4 0.0 2007
Public Information Statement
Statement as of 4:45 PM MDT on October 13, 2008
... Precipitation and snowfall October 9 through October 13 2008...
Heavy snow fell over southwest and central Montana from late Thursday October 8 through early morning Monday October 13. The heaviest amounts fell over Beaverhead through Fergus counties. Daily record snow amounts were recorded at Great Falls... Martinsdale... Townsend... Bozeman... Boulder and White Sulphur Springs on the 12th. Very cold air settled across the area with record cool maximum temperature over much of the southwest on the 11th. Dillon reached only 29 for a high temperature... and Wisdom reached only 28 degrees. At Wisdom... this tied for the earliest high tempererature this cold in the season. Elk Park dropped to 11 degrees below zero Monday morning. This is not a state record... Havre fell to -16 on this date in 1881. However... this is among the coldest low temperatures so early in the season.
Ddhh is the ending day/time of the amount...
County station ddhh 72hr prec snow Beaverhead Dillon agrimet 1312 0.36 Beaverhead Brenner RAWS 1313 0.21 Beaverhead French Creek RAWS 1313 0.10 Beaverhead Harkness RAWS 1313 0.23 Beaverhead Antelope RAWS 1313 0.07 Beaverhead Red Rock 1314 0.16 Beaverhead Wise River RAWS 1313 0.23 Beaverhead Bannack 1314 0.29 Beaverhead Wisdom 1314 T T Beaverhead Dillon 1313 0.12 Beaverhead beagle Springs 1311 2.40 32.8 Beaverhead bloody Dick 1311 2.00 24.6 Beaverhead Darkhorse Lake 1311 1.80 23.1 Beaverhead Divide 1311 0.90 8.2 Beaverhead Lakeview Ridge 1311 1.30 14.5 Beaverhead Lemhi Ridge 1311 2.10 21.7 Beaverhead Mule Creek 1311 1.80 21.2 Blaine Turner/Big Flat agrimet 1311 0.00 Blaine Harlem 1311 0.02 Blaine little bullwhacker creek 1313 0.37 Blaine Fort Belknap Agency 1313 0.15 Blaine Chinook 1306 0.00 0 Blaine Harlem 1218 T 0 Blaine Turner 1218 0.00 0 Broadwater Townsend 1218 0.20 Broadwater tizer basin 1311 1.30 20.2 Broadwater Jefferson river near three 1310 0.11 Broadwater Toston agrimet 1310 0.27 Broadwater Elkhorn RAWS 1313 0.09 Broadwater ginger RAWS 1314 0.11 Cascade Dearborn 1311 0.45 Cascade Missouri River near Ulm 1311 0.16 Cascade Sun River near Vaughn 1312 0.16 Cascade Great Falls ASOS 1313 0.45 Cascade Great Falls malmstrom 1311 0.20 Cascade Great Falls NWS 1311 0.40 6.7 Cascade Great Falls city 1219 0.43 3.0 Cascade Neihart 7nw 1218 0.70 12.5 Chouteau Fort Benton 1308 0.18 1.4 Chouteau Rudyard 19s 1306 0.00 0 Chouteau Virgelle Ferry Landing 1313 0.15 Fergus little snowy RAWS 1313 0.55 Fergus Oscar RAWS 1313 0.18 Fergus Armells creek RAWS 1313 0.20 Fergus Judith river mouth 1310 0.12 Fergus Lewistown 1313 0.45 Fergus Half Moon Pass 1306 22.0 Fergus Crystal Lake 1308 1.60 13.0 Fergus Grass Range 1218 1.14 12.0 Fergus Lewistown 11ese 1307 0.20 15.0 Fergus Valentine 1307 0.69 0.5 Gallatin Big Sky 1218 0.11 3.2 Gallatin Bozeman exp stn 1218 0.40 M Gallatin Bozeman msu 1218 0.36 7.2 Gallatin West Yellowstone 1308 0.20 2.9 Gallatin yellow mule RAWS 1314 0.04 Gallatin Bozeman agrimet 1311 0.50 Gallatin Gallatin river near Logan 1310 0.00 Gallatin Madison river below hebgen 1311 0.19 Gallatin Bozeman Airport 1313 0.18 Gallatin Shenango RAWS 1314 0.33 Gallatin Beaver Creek 1311 0.80 13.5 Gallatin Black Bear 1305 1.00 8.0 Gallatin Brackett creek 1311 3.00 25.7 Gallatin Carrot Basin 1311 1.90 24.9 Gallatin Lick Creek 1208 0.70 4.6 Gallatin Madison Plateau 1311 0.50 6.4 Gallatin sacajawea 1311 2.80 23.0 Gallatin Shower Falls 1308 1.40 15.7 Gallatin Table Mountain 1311 0.60 Gallatin West Yellowstone 1311 0.20 2.8 Gallatin Whiskey Creek 1311 0.80 9.9 Glacier blackfeet agrimet station 1312 0.03 Glacier Browning RAWS 1313 0.02 Glacier east Glacier 1313 0.05 Glacier goat haunt 1313 0.89 Glacier Saint Mary 1313 0.02 Glacier Summit 1313 0.37 Glacier Cut Bank 1313 0.04 Glacier del Bonita 1313 0.00 0 Flathead Flattop Mountain 1311 0.20 4.0 Glacier many Glacier 1308 0.00 Glacier Pike Creek 1308 0.40 1.0 hill Rocky Boy Indian agency 1313 0.10 hill Havre 1313 0.00 0 hill Rocky Boy 1311 0.70 3.3 Jefferson Boulder 1218 0.12 9.0 Jefferson Rocker Peak 1311 1.50 12.5 Jefferson Galena RAWS 1313 0.29 Jefferson Whitehall RAWS 1313 0.19 Judith Basin Bravo RAWS nr Windham 1313 0.33 Judith Basin Moccasin scan 1313 1.10 Judith Basin South Fork Judith RAWS 1314 0.78 Judith Basin Spur Park 1311 2.00 19.2 Judith Basin Hobson 1306 0.84 20.9 Judith Basin Stanford 1218 0.90 14.1 Lewis And Clark Gibson dam 1313 0.30 Lewis And Clark Rogers Pass 1308 0.55 4.6 Lewis And Clark Willow Creek Reservoir 1312 0.09 Lewis And Clark Gibson Reservoir 1313 0.24 Lewis And Clark benchmark 1313 0.46 Lewis And Clark Bravo RAWS 1313 0.33 Lewis And Clark gate park RAWS 1314 0.33 Lewis And Clark Lincoln RAWS 1314 0.37 Lewis And Clark copper bottom 1311 0.60 3.0 Lewis And Clark Copper Camp 1311 1.20 5.6 Lewis And Clark frohner Meadow 1311 1.80 12.0 Lewis And Clark Nevada ridge 1311 1.10 6.8 Lewis And Clark wood creek 1302 2.00 Lewis And Clark Helena 1313 0.30 1.0 Liberty Tiber dam 1313 0.10 Madison Ruby River Valley agrimet 1314 0.03 Madison Ennis RAWS 1314 0.02 Madison Albro Lake 1311 6.00 62.0 Madison Clover Meadow 1311 1.00 7.0 Madison Lone Mountain 1311 0.40 3.1 Madison lower twin 1311 4.00 38.6 Madison Short Creek 1311 0.40 3.3 Madison tepee creek 1311 0.10 0.9 Madison Ennis 1309 0.10 2.2 Madison Pony 1113 36.0 Meagher Martinsdale 1218 0.55 8.0 Meagher Millegan 14se 1221 0.60 7.0 Meagher Boulder Mountain 1311 0.90 16.5 Meagher Daisy Peak 1311 1.60 12.5 Meagher deadman creek 1311 1.20 8.5 Meagher Elk Peak 1311 1.40 15.0 Meagher Onion Park 1311 1.70 11.0 Meagher pickfoot creek 1311 1.80 16.0 Meagher Stringer creek 1311 1.00 10.0 Meagher White Sulphur Springs RAWS 1313 0.45 Pondera Heart Butte 1314 0.13 Pondera Badger Pass 1311 1.40 9.7 Pondera Conrad ag research 1313 0.10 Pondera Valier 1218 0.01 0 Teton Choteau 1218 0.02 0.5 Teton Dupuyer creek 1311 0.30 2.5 Teton Mount Lockhart 1311 1.50 2.0 Teton Waldron 1311 0.80 3.5 Teton Teton river near farmingto 1311 0.18 Teton Gleason RAWS 1314 0.35