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KEY MESSAGES

- Wildfire smoke keeps skies hazy for the foreseeable future, and will occasionally reduce air quality. For the latest air quality visit airnow.gov.

- Slight chance of late day thunderstorms in far southeast Montana today and Tuesday.

- Cooler with a good chance (30-70%) of showers and thunderstorms across the area Wednesday through Friday. Storms may produce heavy rain.

UPDATE

Dry conditions exist underneath high heights aloft, but there is an area of ACCAS over Rosebud to Treasure Counties drifting eastward (a bit further north but not unlike yesterday morning). Skies are clear otherwise, and hazy due to wildfire smoke. Cannot rule out an isolated t-storms late today in the far southeast corner of MT, courtesy of elevated moisture and low level convergence in this area. In fact, Baker airport is reporting a 300ft ceiling at 8am with a dewpt of 61F. May also need to consider fog potential in our far east tonight as low level easterly flow persists. JKL

AVIATION

Wildfire smoke will continue to impact the region, reducing slant range visibility and occasionally surface visibility to MVFR (generally 4SM or 5SM). Surface visibility reductions are most likely over south-central and western Montana and northern Wyoming. KLVM is the most likely terminal to experience reductions below 6SM. LA/PM

PRELIMINARY POINT TEMP/POPS

Tdy Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun ------------------------------------------------------- BIL 092 063/093 063/084 059/075 056/073 055/076 055/082 0/K 00/K 01/B 76/T 85/T 54/T 52/W LVM 092 050/092 054/085 050/075 047/073 045/076 045/081 0/K 00/K 01/B 56/T 87/T 66/T 54/T HDN 093 059/093 060/086 056/078 052/075 050/077 050/083 0/K 00/K 02/T 67/T 74/T 44/T 42/W MLS 091 062/093 061/083 057/076 054/075 052/076 053/081 0/K 00/K 14/T 57/T 86/T 33/T 32/T 4BQ 094 062/094 063/084 058/075 056/075 054/076 054/080 0/K 00/K 07/T 67/T 86/T 54/T 43/T BHK 090 058/093 055/082 050/074 048/073 047/075 047/079 1/K 12/K 25/T 66/T 87/T 43/W 33/T SHR 093 056/092 058/085 054/076 052/073 049/074 049/079 0/K 00/K 03/T 78/T 88/T 67/T 54/T

BYZ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES

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

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