Philipsburg, MT Weather

Granite County2:40 AM MDT46.33°N, 113.29°WElevation 5,243 ft
Winter Weather Advisory from 3:00 PM Fri until 12:00 AM Sat

Current conditions

Light Rain
43°
Light Rain
Feels like 43°
High 47°·Low 35° tonight
WindSSE 1 mph
Humidity100%
Dew point43°
Cloud cover88%
UV index0 Low
Sunrise8:02 AM
Sunset6:34 PM

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

Forecast

10-day

  • Thursday Night

    Rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 35. East wind around 2 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.

  • Friday

    Rain. Cloudy, with a high near 47. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

  • Friday Night

    A chance of rain and snow before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 23.

National Weather Service forecast updated 2 days ago.

Hourly

Hourly forecast
  1. Now Light Rain 43°82%
  2. 3 AM Light Rain 42°82%
  3. 4 AM Light Rain 41°82%
  4. 5 AM Light Rain 41°82%
  5. 6 AM Rain 40°92%
  6. 7 AM Rain 38°92%
  7. 8 AM Rain 37°92%
  8. 9 AM Rain 36°92%
  9. 10 AM Rain 38°92%
  10. 11 AM Rain 40°92%
  11. 12 PM Light Rain Likely 42°68%
  12. 1 PM Light Rain Likely 43°68%
  13. 2 PM Light Rain Likely 44°68%
  14. 3 PM Light Rain Likely 44°68%
  15. 4 PM Light Rain Likely 43°68%
  16. 5 PM Light Rain Likely 42°68%
  17. 6 PM Chance Rain And Snow 39°39%
  18. 7 PM Chance Rain And Snow 37°39%
  19. 8 PM Chance Rain And Snow 35°39%
  20. 9 PM Chance Rain And Snow 33°39%
  21. 10 PM Chance Rain And Snow 32°39%
  22. 11 PM Chance Rain And Snow 31°39%
  23. Sat12 AM Partly Cloudy 30°
  24. 1 AM Partly Cloudy 29°

10-day forecast

Details
  1. TonightOct 20 Mostly Clear Mostly Clear33°
  2. WedOct 21 Sunny Sunny36°68°
  3. ThuOct 22 Sunny Sunny82%35°68°
  4. TodayOct 23 Rain Rain92%23°47°
  5. SatOct 24 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny25°50°
  6. SunOct 25 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny11%23°52°
  7. MonOct 26 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny19%25°53°
  8. TueOct 27 Slight Chance Light Snow then Mostly Sunny Slight Chance Light Snow then Mostly Sunny15%54°
  9. WedOct 28 Partly cloudy Partly cloudy33°55°
  10. ThuOct 29 Cloudy Cloudy39°55°

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

13
Good
Fine particles (PM2.5)

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

Hamilton, 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 8:02 AM
Sunset 6:34 PM
Daylight 10 h 32 min (−3 min 5 s tomorrow)
Waxing Gibbous · 90% lit
Moonrise 5:08 PM Moonset 5:08 AM
Full moon Oct 26 New moon Nov 9

Almanac

Monthly
Normal high / low54° / 28°
Record high75° (1924)
Record low13° (1920)
Wettest0.35 in (1919)
Yesterday67° / 35°
Month to date1.12 in (normal 0.72 in)

Anaconda, records since 1901. Normals 1991–2020. Data from NOAA's Regional Climate Centers (ACIS).

Nearby

Forecasters' discussion

From the National Weather Service office in MSO, issued 13 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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