Summer-Like Temperatures Expected This Weekend [Video]

Our warning trend truly begins today with afternoon highs reaching the 70s. Aside from a couple of very isolated showers in southwestern Montana, everybody will be dry under the influence of an upper-level ridge of high pressure. Expect sunny to mostly sunny skies.

A surface low develops off the Canadian Rockies tonight and travels eastward tomorrow with a weak cold front. This will create some showers and thunderstorms along the boundary in the afternoon from Dillon to Lewistown. An isolated thunderstorm could reach as far north as Helena. Highs will still be in the 70s and 80s, even with a cold front coming through.

Friday will be a mainly dry day again, aside from exiting showers and thunderstorms in southeastern Montana. Temperatures will reach the upper 70s to low 80s.

Saturday will be the warmest day of the year for many. An amplified upper-level ridge ahead of a slow-moving cold …