Lolo, MT 59847 Weather

Missoula County3:00 PM MDT46.76°N, 114.11°W

Current conditions

Light Rain
47°
Light Rain
Feels like 44°
High 50°·Low 27°
WindW 7 mph gusts 14 mph
Humidity95%
Dew point46°
Cloud cover96%
UV index2 Low
Sunrise8:06 AM
Sunset6:37 PM

Forecast for this hour (no station report in the last two hours)

Forecast

10-day

  • Friday

    Rain. Cloudy, with a high near 50. West northwest wind 3 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

  • Friday Night

    A chance of rain before midnight, then patchy fog. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 27. Southwest wind 1 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%.

  • Saturday

    Patchy fog before 9am. Mostly sunny, with a high near 53. South southeast wind around 2 mph.

National Weather Service forecast updated 1 day ago.

Hourly

Hourly forecast
  1. Now Light Rain 47°88%
  2. 4 PM Light Rain 48°79%
  3. 5 PM Light Rain Likely 46°58%
  4. 6 PM Light Rain Likely 44°65%
  5. 7 PM Light Rain Likely 40°65%
  6. 8 PM Light Rain Likely 38°65%
  7. 9 PM Light Rain Likely 38°65%
  8. 10 PM Light Rain Likely 37°65%
  9. 11 PM Light Rain Likely 37°65%
  10. Sat12 AM Mostly Cloudy 36°11%
  11. 1 AM Mostly Cloudy 35°11%
  12. 2 AM Mostly Cloudy 34°11%
  13. 3 AM Patchy Fog 33°11%
  14. 4 AM Patchy Fog 32°11%
  15. 5 AM Patchy Fog 30°11%
  16. 6 AM Patchy Fog 29°
  17. 7 AM Patchy Fog 28°
  18. 8 AM Patchy Fog 28°
  19. 9 AM Mostly Sunny 29°
  20. 10 AM Mostly Sunny 33°
  21. 11 AM Mostly Sunny 39°
  22. 12 PM Mostly Sunny 44°
  23. 1 PM Mostly Sunny 48°
  24. 2 PM Mostly Sunny 51°

10-day forecast

Details
  1. ThuOct 22 Sunny Sunny80%37°71°
  2. TodayOct 23 Rain Rain98%27°50°
  3. SatOct 24 Patchy Fog then Mostly Sunny Patchy Fog then Mostly Sunny25°53°
  4. SunOct 25 Patchy Fog then Mostly Sunny Patchy Fog then Mostly Sunny25°56°
  5. MonOct 26 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny40%26°56°
  6. TueOct 27 Light Rain Likely Light Rain Likely55%25°50°
  7. WedOct 28 Slight Chance Light Snow then Partly Sunny Slight Chance Light Snow then Partly Sunny18%23°50°
  8. ThuOct 29 Sunny Sunny30°49°
  9. FriOct 30 Mostly sunny Mostly sunny34°53°
  10. SatOct 31 Sunny Sunny31°51°

Days after the National Weather Service's seven are MET Norway's outlook, a computer model with no forecaster's review.

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Air quality

17
Good
Ozone

Air quality is satisfactory, and air pollution poses little or no risk.

Missoula, MT reporting area · 2 hrs ago. Data from AirNow (EPA and its state, local and tribal partners); preliminary and subject to change.

Sun & moon

Sunrise 8:06 AM
Sunset 6:37 PM
Daylight 10 h 30 min (−3 min 9 s tomorrow)
Waxing Gibbous · 93% lit
Moonrise 5:11 PM Moonset 5:11 AM
Full moon Oct 26 New moon Nov 9

Almanac

Monthly
Normal high / low51° / 30°
Month to date0.41 in (normal 0.80 in)

Missoula Area, records since 1893. Normals 1991–2020. Data from NOAA's Regional Climate Centers (ACIS).

Nearby

Forecasters' discussion

From the National Weather Service office in MSO, issued 1 day ago

Discussion

KEY MESSAGES:

- Change to more typical fall weather coming Friday.

Temperatures warm yet again towards late summer levels, however satellite clearly shows clouds moving up from the south.

Showers develop this evening from south to north. A few thunderstorms will also be possible in Idaho and Lemhi Counties. For most locations at least a tenth of an inch of rain is likely, in northwest MT precipitation will be showery along the front and there is a 40 to 60% chance of receiving up to a tenth. After a fairly dry start to October, from Lost Trail Pass through southwest MT there is a 70 to 90% chance of receiving up to 1/2 of an inch of total precipitation by Friday evening. Above 6000 feet, as precipitation is ending a change over to snow is possible with a slushy trace to 3 inches in accumulations at locations like Georgetown Lake and Homestake and MacDonald Passes. Due to the timing of snow around rush hour Friday evening a winter weather advisory has been issued for the potential of slick driving conditions.

The models continue to have significant uncertainty after day 3 (Sunday). What is clear is temperatures will catch up to the calendar and October temperatures arrive. High temperatures are expected to be in the 50s for western MT and 60s for north-central ID, while low temperatures routinely fall into the teens and 20s in MT. Weather systems are less clear but there are more solutions depicting a system by mid-week. More details to come.

Aviation

A low pressure system will move northward into the Great Basin this afternoon, sending atmospheric moisture and instability northward. This will set the stage for numerous showers and isolated thunderstorms across north-central Idaho and southwest Montana by mid-afternoon through the evening hours. Precipitation becomes more widespread after 23/0600z, with periods of lowered visibility and ceilings expected through 23/1800z. Freezing levels will lower to around 5000 feet Friday evening, and while no impacts are expected, precipitation may end as wet snow at KBTM.

Mso Watches

MT...Winter Weather Advisory from 3 PM Friday to midnight MDT Friday night for Butte/Blackfoot Region.

ID...None.

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