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KEY MESSAGES

- Scattered light snow showers today.

- Daily chance of precipitation through Wednesday. - Warmer and drier conditions return to end the week.

UPDATE

Light snow continues over south-central/eastern Montana and north- central Wyoming this morning. With this, temperatures in the upper 20s to lower 30s have caused slick road conditions in spots, so use caution traveling this morning. With this, the Winter Weather Advisories for Powder River, Big Horn, southern Rosebud, and Sheridan (WY) Counties, and the Bighorn/Pryor Mountains and the Bighorn Canyon, remain in effect until noon today. However, the Winter Weather Advisories for Treasure and northern Rosebud Counties have been allowed to expire.

While the snow over the plains in the east will taper off by this afternoon, scattered snow showers look to continue over the mountains, foothills, and plains of south-central Montana today. With this, brief reductions to visibility are the main threat, with generally light accumulations forecast mainly on natural surfaces. Arends

AVIATION

Light snow showers will continue to diminish through the morning hours. Periods of MVFR-IFR conditions are possible with these showers, along with low cigs. Although the chance for showers decreases through today, low cigs will linger into the late afternoon allowing for reductions as low as IFR to remain. Otherwise, expect improving conditions tonight into Tuesday with VFR conditions. Matos

PRELIMINARY POINT TEMP/POPS

Tdy Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun ------------------------------------------------------- BIL 043 027/059 036/061 036/063 038/073 044/070 043/064 5/J 22/W 14/W 10/U 00/U 11/B 24/W LVM 043 025/054 031/058 033/061 034/070 040/068 041/064 7/J 23/W 15/T 10/U 00/U 12/W 34/T HDN 045 024/059 033/062 034/064 034/074 040/073 041/067 4/W 23/W 14/W 11/U 00/U 11/B 34/W MLS 044 027/056 033/059 033/061 035/072 043/069 042/064 5/J 11/B 01/B 00/U 00/U 01/B 22/W 4BQ 042 028/054 033/059 034/059 033/070 041/071 042/067 6/J 13/W 02/W 00/U 00/U 00/B 22/W BHK 043 024/053 029/056 029/058 031/069 039/067 037/062 5/J 02/W 11/B 00/U 00/U 01/B 12/W SHR 041 022/052 028/056 031/057 029/068 036/069 038/064 3/J 35/W 15/T 12/W 00/U 01/B 23/T

BYZ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES

MT...Winter Weather Advisory in effect until noon MDT today FOR ZONES 36-57-58-138-169-171. WY...Winter Weather Advisory in effect until noon MDT today FOR ZONES 198-199.