textproduct: Billings

KEY MESSAGES

- Strong weather system impacts the region through midday Monday, with heavy snow over the western mountains, accumulating wet snow along the western foothills, and rain/wet snow for central lower elevations. The east will see occasional rain.

- Good chance of a freeze across the region Monday night.

- Weather pattern remains unsettled through mid week, with slowly rising temps.

- Growing confidence for warmer & drier weather next weekend.

AVIATION

Widespread precipitation is expected over the next 24 hours creating widespread MVFR and IFR conditions. Precipitation from Billings and east (KBIL,KMLS,KSHR,KBHK) is expected to be rain while a rain/snow mix to all snow is expected for the mountains and foothills (KLVM,K6SO,K3HT). Mountains will be obscured throughout the period. Northeasterly winds gusting into the 20s kts will be common throughout the day Sunday. Winds near KLVM are expected to gust to near 30 kts. Torgerson

PRELIMINARY POINT TEMP/POPS

Tdy Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat ------------------------------------------------------- BIL 042 032/042 031/052 034/058 039/057 035/059 040/069 +/R +9/O 00/B 10/U 11/B 10/U 00/U LVM 037 024/043 024/052 025/056 028/057 027/063 032/070 +/O +6/S 00/B 00/U 11/U 10/U 00/U HDN 047 034/045 030/054 032/060 035/059 030/062 031/072 +/R +8/O 11/B 11/B 11/B 10/U 00/U MLS 048 037/044 032/053 035/058 039/056 033/057 035/068 9/R 99/R 11/B 01/B 11/U 00/U 00/U 4BQ 053 042/048 032/054 038/058 041/057 034/058 037/070 6/R 76/R 23/W 23/W 31/B 11/U 00/U BHK 052 032/046 030/054 031/059 034/058 028/056 030/068 7/R +8/R 11/E 11/B 21/N 10/U 00/U SHR 049 034/046 029/053 032/057 035/057 028/061 032/071 8/R 83/R 34/W 44/W 31/N 10/U 00/U

BYZ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES

MT...Winter Weather Advisory in effect from 6 PM this evening to noon MDT Monday FOR ZONES 29-34-42. Winter Weather Advisory in effect until noon MDT Monday FOR ZONES 40-65-66-141-228. Winter Storm Warning in effect until noon MDT Monday FOR ZONES 63-67-68-172. WY...None.