The National Weather Service is predicting a system with heavy rains to move into western Montana starting Sunday and lasting most of the following week.
Rain has been falling steadily all night around western Montana, according to meteorologist Leeanne Allegretto with the National Weather Service Office in Missoula. She provided the overnight numbers as of 4:00 a.m.
The National Weather Service and the Missoula County Office of Emergency Management are teaming up to let residents in western Montana know that a very warm and moist weather system is headed into western Montana with heavy rain and possible flooding.
The National Weather Service is predicting that the Clark Fork River will experience minor flooding as the warm weather melts the snow pack in western Montana mountains.
The National Weather Service office in Missoula is calling for an end to the warm springtime weather in time for the weekend when a cold arctic front is headed toward western Montana from the east.
The National Weather Service is assuring valley residents that even though there wasn’t a great deal of snowfall this winter that mountain snow pack is in excellent shape