As National Weather Service meteorologist Dan Zumpf said early Wednesday morning, ‘tis the season for strong, gusty winds, coming from a cold front moving across the area
The National Weather Service is reporting that Missoula not only had wind gusts at nearly 100 miles per hour on Saturday, but that the temperature reached a record high of 60 degrees in the afternoon.
Sunday brought its own series of thunderstorms driven by strong winds into western Montana. Meteorologist Brian Conlan with the National Weather Service has details.
The National Weather Service is predicting with moderate confidence for today that Western MT will experience strong and potentially damaging winds with an approaching cold front, with winds at 25 to 35 mph, gusting to 40 to 60-plus mph possible, peaking between 5pm-12am.