Weather

LOTS of snow and gusty winds have created very dangerous avalanche conditions in southwest Montana and parts of Idaho. Avalanche warnings continue for some of the most popular recreational areas, with the snow and wind persist on Tuesday.

The cause of dirty rain might actually be hundreds of miles away. Here's why you should be prepared for this to happen more often.

The Montana Department of Transportation has added more camera locations to the MDT road camera map. Road conditions and current on-site weather information is incredibly helpful to Montana travelers.

The entire northern half of Montana, along with the area through Livingston, is under some sort of high wind warning, advisory, or watch for Monday. Winds gusting to 60 mph or more are bound to affect road travel. The western part of Montana will get high winds on Sunday night.

Travel in the southern portion of Montana could get quite dangerous through Friday morning, as the higher elevations along the border are expecting over foot of snow and gusty winds up to 40mph.

A huge percentage of Montana counties are under some sort of flood warning through at least Friday night. Lots of snow followed by much warmer temperatures equals an insane amount of melted water - and that means flooding.

Mother Nature really cranked the A/C up to the max this year. But where are the coldest counties in Montana? We've got the answers.

Warm weather and severe storms make for a fairly unpredictable spring.

Winter in Montana is a serious thing. When you get as much snow as we have so far this year, we all need to relax a little bit about what time your neighbors shovel or snow blow their property. It's important, but flexibility is needed.

There's not one county in Montana that doesn't have a weather alert of some sort for Monday and/or Tuesday. Several inches of more snow is expected to fall across the state, with gusty winds - making for low visibility and dangerous wind chill factors.

Winter in Montana can really pack a punch. Are you prepared for a Montana winter?

From beams of light shooting into the night sky to lightning in a snowstorm, Big Sky Country is full of winter weather that is sometimes hard to believe.