How cold was it at your place this morning?

 As we talked about yesterday, temperatures dropped into the 30s in many places this morning.  Here's a map of the minimum temperatures observed.  Some notable temperatures include 34F at Priest Lake and Davenport, 37F at Almira, 33F at Springdale, and even a 32F at Yaak in northwest Montana.



Many of you are probably familiar with the cold spots, including Deer Park.  The temperature is measured at the airport.  How representative is it of the surrounding area?  Recently the US Bureau of Reclamation installed one of their AgriMet sensors just east of town, very close to the airport.  This morning, it was 6 degrees warmer than the airport observation.  That's quite a temperature gradient over such a short distance.  Which is an other example of how microscale the weather can be.



It will be chilly the next few nights, but this was probably the coldest night for awhile.  And after our cold Tuesday, temperatures will be on the rebound.

In our last blog, we were talking about a low tracking from California into Montana, staying mainly south and east of our area.  The latest models are doubling down on this idea, keeping the low even further south of our area.  The kicker low we talked about yesterday (west of Oregon in the image below) won't move onshore until next week.


So at this point, the forecast after Wednesday looks warming and drying with just a very low chance (about 10%) of light rain showers through the middle of next week.



Temperatures will warm into the lower 80s by this weekend.  Dew points will be in the 40s.  Meanwhile, winds won't be as gusty as we have seen the past few days, but there will still be a breeze in the afternoon each day. 











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