It doesn't look like CRAZY snow accumulation is coming our way but this warning concerns me because it's big and the wind could make travel super yucky. Details here:

Bozeman snow. (photo Michelle Wolfe/KMMS)
Bozeman snow. (photo Michelle Wolfe/KMMS)
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The National Weather Service in Great Falls has issued a Winter
Weather Advisory for snow and blowing snow... which is in effect
from midnight tonight to 5 PM MST Tuesday.

* Timing and main impact: an Arctic cold front will move south
through central and southwest Montana early Tuesday afternoon.
The front will bring sharply falling temperatures... gusty north
winds and a period of snow and blowing snow.

* Snow accumulations: 1 to 3 inches of snow accumulation... 3 to 6
inches in the mountains.

* Winds and visibility: gusty north winds at 15 to 25 mph will
create blowing and drifting snow with visibilities reduced to
less than a mile at times.

* Temperatures: temperatures will fall into the lower teens and
upper single digits by Tuesday afternoon and the combination of
gusty winds will create wind chill values of zero to below 10
below zero.

* Locations affected include: White Sulphur Springs... Battle
Ridge Pass... Bozeman... Bozeman Pass... Targhee Pass... West
Yellowstone... Boulder... Boulder Hill... Elk Park Pass...
Homestake pass... Whitehall... Townsend... Big Hole Pass... Chief
Joseph Pass... Dillon... Monida Pass... Flesher Pass... Helena...
Lincoln... MacDonald Pass... Rogers Pass... Ennis... Norris
Hill... Raynolds Pass... Twin Bridges.

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