Weather

The sudden warming trend in Montana is making for hazardous avalanche conditions in some backcountry areas, especially in popular recreation spots in northwest Montana.

Just about every county in western and central Montana has some sort of weather advisory in effect to kick off this weekend. More snow and very gusty winds are expected, which could make travel difficult at times.

Thursday was already forecasted to be very windy across Montana, but of course the Livingston area had to kick it up a notch. There is now a short-lived Wind Advisory for the I-90 corridor, in effect until Thursday afternoon.

Be aware: if you need to drive in northern Montana on Thursday, you'll probably encounter very strong winds. Gusts up to 60 MPH are in the forecast. Montana's Hi-Line between Glacier and Shelby are the target area.

Strong winds are being predicted across Southern Montana Sunday- from Livingston through Billings and down into Wyoming. Harlow residents are even being warned about the wind.

The Montana Department of Transportation has added more camera locations to the MDT road camera map. Road conditions and current on-site weather information is incredibly helpful to Montana travelers.

The entire northern half of Montana, along with the area through Livingston, is under some sort of high wind warning, advisory, or watch for Monday. Winds gusting to 60 mph or more are bound to affect road travel. The western part of Montana will get high winds on Sunday night.

Travel in the southern portion of Montana could get quite dangerous through Friday morning, as the higher elevations along the border are expecting over foot of snow and gusty winds up to 40mph.

A huge percentage of Montana counties are under some sort of flood warning through at least Friday night. Lots of snow followed by much warmer temperatures equals an insane amount of melted water - and that means flooding.

Mother Nature really cranked the A/C up to the max this year. But where are the coldest counties in Montana? We've got the answers.