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Severe weather warning issued for Thursday
8+ hour, 21+ min ago (149+ words) SANDPOINT " The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm warning across the inland northwest for Thursday afternoon and evening. Bonner and Boundary counties have been issued a level one, marginal risk warning from 4 to 10 p. m. Thursday. The region could see…...
Winterlike conditions return to Northwest Montana
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (288+ words) Snowpack in the Swan Range on Wednesday, Feb. 25. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake) Casey Kreider After a bout of unseasonably warm days to start the week " Kalispell hit 79 degrees Tuesday " temperatures Thursday and Friday will top out in the 40s, with…...
Lincoln Co. gets Major Disaster Declaration for federal $
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (861+ words) Several hundred feet of the Logger Trail along Libby Creek were washed out in the December 2025 flood that struck south Lincoln County. (Scott Shindledecker/The Western News) The wait is over for Montana communities to receive funds to fix infrastructure…...
Warm winter challenges Northwest Montana timber industry
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1476+ words) Windthrow clutters a recently thinned unit in the Flathead National Forest, near Salmon Prairie. (Hailey Smalley/ Daily Inter Lake) Mark Benedict examines the aftermath of a windstorm on a recently thinned unit of the Flathead National Forest, near Salmon Prairie....
Forest officials continue assessing wind-damaged areas
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (530+ words) Recent intense windstorms have swept across the Kootenai National Forest, leaving several areas, across all land ownerships, heavily impacted." While wind events are a common and important disturbance dynamic for forest ecosystems, these recent events resulted in unprecedented levels of…...
Snowpack hits record-low levels across Montana
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (934+ words) Below Chair 2 at Whitefish Mountain Resort on Friday, March 6. (Kelsey Evans/Whitefish Pilot) As of early April, when snowpack-monitoring stations in Montana are typically peaking, one-third of the longer-standing sites are posting record-low totals. The upshot of the bleak state…...
Northwest Montana wraps up record warm winter
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (328+ words) Snowpack in the Swan Range along the ridgeline to Mount Aeneas on Wednesday, Feb. 25. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake) Casey Kreider The gateway community to Glacier National Park set new daily high temperatures on eight occasions last winter, eclipsing the…...