From today’s Daily Inter Lake . . .
The National Weather Service is holding to its forecast for higher temperatures this weekend and for Western Montana rivers and streams to rise sharply in the early part of next week.
Temperatures are expected to reach the lower 70s today and the upper 70s or lowers 80s by Sunday and Monday.
It will be “the warmest temperatures we’ve certainly seen this year,” meteorologist Bruce Bauck said. “It’s going to take a couple of days for this warm weather to start melting this snow … We should see the rivers starting to jump up pretty good in the early part of the week.”…
Across the Flathead River Basin, the snow water content at higher-elevation sites is 226 percent of normal….
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