textproduct: Billings

KEY MESSAGES

- Scattered thunderstorms this afternoon and evening. A few storms could be severe and produce hail, strong winds, and heavy rain.

- Trending drier Thursday; a chance of thunderstorms over the east and south.

- Very hot this weekend into early next week. High temperatures will exceed 100 degrees most locations over the weekend, and temps on Sunday may challenge all-time records. Protect yourself from the heat!

AVIATION

Patchy fog east of Billings is expected to burn off by around 15z. Precipitation chances (20-50%) enter after 18z today with the best chances being south of Billings. Isolated severe storms are expected with strong wind gusts, hail, and heavy rain being the main threats. MVFR conditions are possible with these storms due to heavy rain decreasing visibility. Showers and thunderstorms are expected to linger north of Billings until around 12Z Thursday. Torgerson

PRELIMINARY POINT TEMP/POPS

Tdy Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue ------------------------------------------------------- BIL 092 063/091 064/096 066/103 070/108 073/099 071/094 2/T 10/U 01/U 10/G 00/G 00/U 11/U LVM 090 055/090 055/093 057/102 061/103 064/096 062/092 1/U 21/U 01/U 20/G 00/G 00/U 23/T HDN 092 061/092 060/097 064/103 068/109 071/101 070/096 2/T 10/U 10/U 10/G 00/G 00/G 11/B MLS 087 062/092 062/097 067/102 071/109 075/101 070/095 1/U 21/U 00/U 10/G 00/G 10/G 11/U 4BQ 089 062/091 061/096 067/103 071/107 075/102 070/096 2/T 23/T 31/U 10/G 00/G 00/G 11/U BHK 084 057/089 057/093 063/101 066/106 070/100 065/093 0/U 02/T 20/U 10/G 00/G 00/U 01/B SHR 088 057/089 057/095 061/103 066/107 069/099 067/094 5/T 22/T 21/U 10/G 00/N 00/U 13/T

BYZ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES

MT...None. WY...None.