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KEY MESSAGES

- Light snow showers in the Eastern Highlands tapering off this afternoon.

- Ridge of high pressure builds in over the area for a warmer, drier weekend.

- Highs return to near 70 degrees by next Monday.

DISCUSSION

Issued at 107 PM MDT Fri Apr 3 2026

Radar is still picking up on a few returns over the Eastern Highlands, but most of that seems to be low level moisture and just a few light snow showers more than "real, impactful" snowfall. About a 20 percent chance of isolated snow showers continuing in the Eastern Highlands through the afternoon, but our Winter Weather Advisory has come to an end. For everyone else, today will be a dry, cool day with highs near 50 degrees this afternoon. Winds are much lighter today than they were yesterday, but still expect wind gusts of 20 to 30 mph. A ridge of high pressure is building in over the West which will keep us dry through the weekend and get our warming trend underway. Highs will make it to near 60 degrees for most on Saturday afternoon and then we will push into the upper 60s by Sunday afternoon. Monday looks to be the warmest day with highs right around 70 degrees before a weak shortwave passes through late Monday and flattens the ridge a bit. This will only drop temperatures a few degrees for Tuesday afternoon.

Towards the middle of next week, models are showing an area of low pressure moving through southern Canada bringing another cold front through our area. This feature along with another shortwave will bring precipitation chances back to our CWA as early as Tuesday PM for the mountain zones while anything more widespread looks to hold off until Wednesday, at least. The cold front will drop our temperatures though, back into the 50s and low 60s for Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

AVIATION /06Z TAFS THROUGH 06Z SUNDAY/

Issued at 1000 PM MDT Fri Apr 3 2026

Light south or southwesterly wind into the overnight hours at PIH and IDA. Light winds likely at all other sites continuing into Saturday. SUN will see downvalley winds turn upvalley around 18z.

PIH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES

None.

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