Here's a close up view of Friday's thunderstorm out the back door of the Peter Christian home.
In the Helena valley where I grew up, we called this a 'gully washer'..
The National Weather Service is predicting a line of thunderstorms starting Tuesday, and increasing in intensity on Wednesday, followed by periods of heavy rain and cooler temperatures.
The National Weather Service has issued a forecast for snow and cold temperatures to impact areas of the northern Rockies of Montana and Idaho starting Wednesday evening through Saturday.
H.H.C. Dunwoody, an Army first lieutenant who suggested in 1883 that rather than putting our faith in meteorologists who can’t predict the weather “for a longer period than two or three days, and frequently not longer than twenty-four hours,” we should follow the wisdom of animals.
The National Weather Service reported on Sunday morning, February 9, that the perfect combination of temperature and moisture met at about midnight, and dumped from five to 13 inches of snow on Western Montana.