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FXUS65 KBYZ 110846
AFDBYZ

Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Billings MT
246 AM MDT Thu Jun 11 2026

.KEY MESSAGES...

- Breezy west to northwest winds with gusts of 20-45 mph today.
  Highest gusts in the foothills west of Billings and along the
  Dakotas Border.

- Cooler and potentially wetter with a cold front, Friday night
  into Saturday.

&&

.DISCUSSION...
Today through Wednesday...

Breezy winds continue across the region into this afternoon, as
an upper low continues it`s slow eastward progression over
southern Canada. Look for the strongest gusts through the early
morning hours, in the 20s to 40 mph. Locally greater gusts are
possible for the foothills west of Billings, approaching 50 mph.
Winds will diminish from west to east through the afternoon.

Lingering showers and a weak thunderstorm or two remain possible
into the early afternoon, mainly over southeastern Montana and
northern Wyoming. Northwest flow looks to take over into the
weekend, bringing slightly cooler than normal temperatures in the
upper 60s to low 70s and mostly dry conditions through Friday
afternoon. An upper shortwave is shown dropping through the region
along with a surface cold front. These features look to bring an
increased chance of precipitation, especially over the mountains
of southern Montana. Cooler 850-700mb temperatures look to
accompany the wave, with 850mb temps between 5-10C. Meanwhile
700mb temps look to be around to below 0C, bringing a low
probability for light snow over the highest elevations of the
Absaroka/Beartooth and Bighorn Mountains, impacts to recreation
and travel through the mountains is low at this time.

The aforementioned upper low over southern Canada looks to get
stuck over Ontario into next week, keeping much of the region in
a northwesterly flow pattern with the chance for isolated to
scattered showers and thunderstorms most afternoons/evenings. The
threat of strong to severe storms remains very low through the
forecast period at this time.

Temperatures are currently forecast to be in the upper 60s to mid
70sF each day, potentially back into the 80s by Tuesday and
Wednesday. Overnight lows are forecast to be in the 40s and 50sF
each night.

Matos

.AVIATION...

Issued 06Z. Widespread showers from the northwest will impact much
of the area early this morning. Expect areas of MVFR and even
local IFR, especially east of KBIL, while mountains are obscured
in rain and snow (snow level near 7000ft). Precip will taper off
west to east thru the mid and late morning. VFR should prevail
thereafter. Gusty W-NW winds will continue through the day with
widespread gusts of 25-40kts (highest in the east after daybreak).
Winds will diminish this evening. JKL

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.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMP/POPS...

    Tdy Fri     Sat     Sun     Mon     Tue     Wed
-------------------------------------------------------
BIL 074 049/078 051/066 045/071 047/077 052/087 059/088
    2/W 00/B    75/W    01/U    01/B    00/B    11/U
LVM 070 041/076 043/062 038/068 039/074 044/084 050/087
    1/N 00/U    66/W    11/U    01/U    00/N    01/N
HDN 073 045/077 048/066 042/071 044/075 048/085 055/087
    5/W 00/B    74/W    01/U    01/B    00/B    12/T
MLS 070 047/075 049/066 045/071 047/073 049/081 055/084
    7/W 00/U    31/B    00/U    11/B    00/B    12/W
4BQ 068 046/076 049/064 043/068 045/071 048/080 055/084
    8/W 00/B    65/W    00/U    02/W    00/B    11/U
BHK 068 044/073 044/064 040/069 044/069 045/076 051/080
    +/T 00/B    11/N    00/B    02/T    00/B    22/W
SHR 070 041/076 044/060 037/065 039/071 043/081 051/085
    6/W 00/U    69/W    33/T    11/B    00/B    11/N

&&

.BYZ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
MT...Winter Weather Advisory in effect until 9 AM MDT this morning
      FOR ZONE 67.
WY...None.

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