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KEY MESSAGES

- Falling and blowing snow will continue to reduce visibility below 1 mile at times through the evening.

- A cold front this afternoon and evening will bring gusty winds of 25-35 mph over the plains and 40s-50s mph over the foothills. - Temperatures will quickly warm into the 60s and 70s by mid week.

AVIATION

A cold front has moved through today, bringing brisk northwest to northeast winds to much of the area. With this, the band of moderate to heavy snow has also shifted south near the Montana- Wyoming state line. Look for this band of snow to continue to shift south and east this evening before exiting the area by tonight. Within this band of moderate to heavy snow, IFR and LIFR with localized VLIFR conditions are expected. Look for scattered to widespread light snow to then continue/develop over south- eastern Montana and north-central/eastern Wyoming tonight before coming to an end Sunday morning. Within this activity, breezy winds combined with the light snow may cause MVFR to IFR conditions at times, mainly for airfields east and south of KBIL. Otherwise, the gusty winds over south-central Montana this evening will come to an end tonight. Arends

PRELIMINARY POINT TEMP/POPS

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat ----------------------------------------------------------- BIL 012/029 014/047 040/065 043/072 043/073 046/076 047/076 62/S 12/W 11/N 00/B 00/B 00/B 11/B LVM 015/035 021/053 046/064 047/071 047/071 047/075 048/075 41/B 36/W 51/N 10/N 00/N 00/N 11/N HDN 011/028 010/047 036/066 039/075 039/075 042/078 044/078 72/S 03/W 22/W 10/B 00/B 01/B 11/B MLS 006/021 002/036 029/055 039/066 041/070 044/072 044/072 50/B 01/E 11/N 00/B 00/B 00/B 11/B 4BQ 010/023 007/040 033/062 041/072 042/072 045/076 045/075 70/B 01/E 11/N 00/B 00/B 00/U 01/B BHK 003/019 001/033 023/055 037/067 040/068 042/070 040/066 90/B 01/B 22/W 00/B 00/B 00/B 11/B SHR 010/027 008/046 034/068 039/074 040/073 042/077 044/076 52/S 03/W 21/N 00/B 00/U 00/B 01/B

BYZ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES

MT...Winter Storm Warning in effect until 6 AM MDT Sunday FOR ZONES 33-36-37-58-63-67-138-171-228. Winter Weather Advisory in effect until 6 AM MDT Sunday FOR ZONES 56-66-170. WY...Winter Storm Warning in effect until 6 AM MDT Sunday FOR ZONE 198. Winter Weather Advisory in effect until noon MDT Sunday FOR ZONE 199.