UPDATE -- 3:00 p.m. Wednesday, July 8.
The National Weather Service is predicting wet thunderstorms with the potential for flash flooding Thursday and Friday that could continue through the weekend. The southern Bitterroot Valley could be hardest hit.
Western Montana is under a heat advisory for most of the weekend—reaching temperatures that most of the state hasn’t seen for over a century.
It's hard to believe after days of rain, but National Weather Service Hydrologist Ray Nickless said the amount of water hitting Montana over the past month is below normal.
Showers and thunderstorms are expected throughout the rest of the week in the Missoula area, but Meterologist Luke Robinson with the National Weather Service said there are more than thunderstorm watches to be aware of this evening.
In Billings, U.S. Senate candidates Steve Daines and Amanda Curtis squared off last night, each pounding home familiar themes. Republican Daines on his job-building skills, and Democrat Curtis on being an outsider,or as she said 'one of us'.
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'..