Miles City, Montana 7 Day Weather Forecast

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FXUS65 KBYZ 061139
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Area Forecast Discussion...Updated
National Weather Service Billings MT
539 AM MDT Sun Oct 6 2024

.KEY MESSAGES...

- Warm and Dry with mainly light winds through Thursday.

- No significant precipitation for the foreseeable future.

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.DISCUSSION...

Through Monday night...

Ridge of high pressure will bring sunny, warm, and dry conditions
to the area. Winds will be light out of the south today, shifting
to the west tomorrow. Temperatures will climb into the mid 70s
today and close to 80 degrees tomorrow. Expect areas of smoke to
continue in Sheridan and surrounding counties from the Elk fire,
and at times across the rest of the area (smoke/haze) due to
fires in Idaho combined with westerly winds aloft. Chambers

Tuesday through Saturday...

Ridge will keep sunny and dry conditions in place for
Tuesday/Wednesday. General troffing along the U.S. West Coast will
back flow aloft to the southwest and lower heights a bit for
Thursday and Friday. Pacific moisture riding this flow along with
weak jet energy and a weak cold front may be enough to generate a
few showers from Thursday night into Saturday, but overall not a
strong precipitation pattern at all and forecast precipitation
amounts remain very low at this time. The enhanced cloud cover and
filtering in of cooler air from the north will bring temperatures
down from the mid 80s on Wednesday to closer to normal values in
the low to mid 60s next Saturday. The good news for fire concerns
is that winds will remain light through the extended period.
Chambers

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.AVIATION...

12z Update: Reductions to slant-range visibility will occur today
as wildfire smoke concentrations increase from west to east. At
KSHR, surface visibility has been reduced this morning from smoke
from the Elk Fire. While uncertainty remains on the surface
visibility forecast, general improvements are anticipated today as
surface winds turn out of the southeast. By this evening, winds
look to become variable again, potentially allowing MVFR
visibilities to return. Arends

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.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMP/POPS...

    Tdy Mon     Tue     Wed     Thu     Fri     Sat
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BIL 075 048/079 047/082 049/082 052/077 048/069 043/064
    0/H 00/K    00/U    00/U    00/B    11/B    22/W
LVM 078 041/077 042/080 046/082 048/077 045/067 036/062
    0/H 00/K    00/U    00/U    00/B    12/W    32/W
HDN 077 043/080 042/083 044/084 048/080 046/073 041/064
    0/H 00/K    00/U    00/U    00/B    01/B    22/W
MLS 073 042/078 043/082 046/082 049/079 049/071 044/063
    0/U 00/H    00/U    00/U    00/B    11/B    22/W
4BQ 074 044/078 045/082 048/085 052/081 050/074 045/064
    0/H 00/H    00/U    00/U    00/B    00/B    12/W
BHK 069 040/078 042/083 044/085 047/080 045/073 041/064
    0/U 00/H    00/U    00/U    00/B    00/B    11/B
SHR 078 043/079 041/083 044/085 047/084 045/076 039/062
    0/K 00/H    00/U    00/U    00/B    01/B    22/W

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.BYZ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
MT...None.
WY...None.

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