Weather

The weather in western Montana has been downright balmy, considering we're coming to the close of the Thanksgiving weekend, but, that could change by Sunday night into Monday.

Thanksgiving travelers can look forward to a pretty warm weather system in Montana.

Smoke from surrounding fires continues to filter into Missoula. Environmental Health and Air Quality Specialist Sarah Coefield explains. “We saw some of that smoke head in to Missoula last night around nine,” said Coefield. “A lot of folks between 8:30 and 9 really started to notice the smoke...

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

Heavy rain in Missoula. No flooding reported as of 4am.

Tornado sighted near Dillon

It's so unusual these days for Missoula to receive a heavy rain, that KGVO contacted the National Weather Service Office in Missoula to see if Tuesday's rainfall may have caused any problems in the Missoula area.

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.

April sure seemed like an unseasonably warm month in Western Montana, and according to Meteorologist Jeff Kitsmiller from the National Weather Service, there’s now data to back-up that opinion. "Around here, especially if you take just Missoula particularly, we had our warmest April since we've been keeping records at the airport...

A late spring storm that brought occasionally heavy snow to areas of central and western Montana made travel hazardous along Interstate 15 and downed power poles, causing several outages, before moving off to the east.