Kalispell, MT 59901 Weather

Flathead County6:55 PM MDT48.20°N, 114.30°W

Current conditions

Partly Cloudy
62°
Partly Cloudy
Feels like 62°
High 50° Friday·Low 40° tonight
WindCalm
Humidity54%
Dew point45°
Visibility10 mi
Cloud cover50%
UV index0 Low
Sunrise8:08 AM
Sunset6:37 PM

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

Forecast

10-day

  • Tonight

    A chance of rain between midnight and 3am, then rain likely and patchy fog. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 40. West northwest wind around 2 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%.

  • Friday

    Rain before 3pm. Cloudy, with a high near 50. North northwest wind 3 to 12 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.

  • Friday Night

    Patchy fog after midnight. Partly cloudy, with a low around 28. East northeast wind around 2 mph.

National Weather Service forecast updated 4 hrs ago.

Hourly

Hourly forecast
  1. Now Partly Cloudy 62°
  2. 7 PM Partly Cloudy 60°
  3. 8 PM Partly Cloudy 56°
  4. 9 PM Partly Cloudy 51°
  5. 10 PM Partly Cloudy 50°11%
  6. 11 PM Partly Cloudy 48°
  7. Fri12 AM Chance Light Rain 47°32%
  8. 1 AM Chance Light Rain 46°33%
  9. 2 AM Chance Light Rain 45°32%
  10. 3 AM Chance Light Rain 44°44%
  11. 4 AM Chance Light Rain 44°49%
  12. 5 AM Light Rain Likely 43°66%
  13. 6 AM Light Rain Likely 43°73%
  14. 7 AM Light Rain 43°84%
  15. 8 AM Light Rain 41°77%
  16. 9 AM Light Rain 44°86%
  17. 10 AM Light Rain 46°86%
  18. 11 AM Light Rain Likely 47°74%
  19. 12 PM Light Rain Likely 47°55%
  20. 1 PM Chance Light Rain 48°51%
  21. 2 PM Chance Light Rain 47°30%
  22. 3 PM Cloudy 47°
  23. 4 PM Partly Sunny 47°
  24. 5 PM Partly Sunny 47°

10-day forecast

Details
  1. TodayOct 22 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny66%40°66°
  2. FriOct 23 Light Rain Light Rain86%28°50°
  3. SatOct 24 Patchy Fog then Mostly Sunny Patchy Fog then Mostly Sunny27°51°
  4. SunOct 25 Partly Sunny Partly Sunny24°51°
  5. MonOct 26 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny29%27°50°
  6. TueOct 27 Chance Rain And Snow Chance Rain And Snow49%26°48°
  7. WedOct 28 Chance Light Snow then Slight Chance Light Rain Chance Light Snow then Slight Chance Light Rain25%24°48°
  8. ThuOct 29 Sunny Sunny31°46°
  9. FriOct 30 Mostly sunny Mostly sunny30°51°
  10. SatOct 31 Partly cloudy Partly cloudy31°50°

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

29
Good
Coarse particles (PM10)

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

Flathead Valley, MT reporting area · 1 hr ago. Data from AirNow (EPA and its state, local and tribal partners); preliminary and subject to change.

Sun & moon

Sunrise 8:08 AM
Sunset 6:37 PM
Daylight 10 h 28 min (−3 min 19 s tomorrow)
Waxing Gibbous · 88% lit
Moonrise 4:55 PM Moonset 4:00 AM
Full moon Oct 26 New moon Nov 9

Almanac

Monthly
Normal high / low50° / 27°
Record high70° (2003)
Record low12° (1981)
Wettest0.64 in (1933)
Yesterday62° / 25°
Month to date0.07 in (normal 0.84 in)

Kalispell Glacier Airport, records since 1896. Normals 1991–2020. Data from NOAA's Regional Climate Centers (ACIS).

Nearby

Forecasters' discussion

From the National Weather Service office in MSO, issued 6 hrs 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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