Drought

Missoula and eight other counties went into Severe Drought yesterday according to the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation. National Weather Service hydrologist Ray Nickless explains. "Most of our drought situation is really based on our water supply this year," said Nickless...

This week Missoula County and Ravalli County both went into drought alert status.

An exceptionally dry June forced Missoula Country to go to Drought Alert Status today, July 19

A wet and cooler spring has eased drought concerns over parts of western Montana, but severe drought conditions remain along the Rocky Mountain Front after two straight winters of lower snowfall and warmer temperatures.

While the worst of fire season may be over and drought-induced fishing restrictions were lifted this week, hydrologist Ray Nicholas with the National Weather Service said Montana is still plagued by drought.

Despite some much needed recent rain in the Missoula area, many Montana counties have been dubbed "natural disaster areas" due to severe drought conditions the state has faced in the past few weeks—Missoula being one of them.

Boat owners on Flathead Lake are starting to get concerned after Northwestern Energy opened the dam and let the water level drop nine inches below the recreational water level.

A Billings man was killed over the Fourth of July weekend in a fireworks accident.

Today, July 2, the United States Department of Agriculture declared that a large portion of Montana entered D2 or “Severe” drought conditions.

The perfect storm of near record high temperatures will clash with record low rainfall and streamflows later this week, and forecasters are worried.