Fire and Aviation Discussion for Libby, Montana

Fire Weather Discussion as of 9:45 p.m. MDT Thursday, June 19, 2025

Much cooler and wetter weather will arrive during the day on Friday which will produce some very beneficial rain and high mountain snowfall so fire weather concerns will dramatically decrease over the next few days. Fire weather conditions will be updated again sometime next week after things begin to dry out once again and warm up.

Aviation discussion as of 3:10 p.m. MDT Sunday, June 22, 2025 valid through 10:00 p.m. MDT Monday, June 23, 2025:

Scattered MVFR to local IFR conditions in heavier showers and scattered thunderstorms will continue throughout much of the night before coming to an end shortly before dawn on Monday. Once showers and thunderstorms end anticipate IFR stratus to fill the valley with a saturated boundary layer. Stratus should life and break up by mid morning on Monday with VFR conditions returning with plenty of cumulus clouds around. Monday afternoon isolated to scattered showers and thunderstorms will redevelop but mainly to the north of the airfield closer to the Canadian border but can’t completely rule out a stray storm or two mainly over and west of the Cabinet Mountains. Winds will be light south to southwesterly except gusty, erratic winds in the vicinity of thunderstorms. Heavy rain, frequent lightning and small hail will be possible with thunderstorms Sunday evening.