Mid January Temperature Swings
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Mid January Temperature Swings
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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT
305 PM MST FRI JAN 14 2011
THIS MORNING A STATIONARY FRONT ALONG A LINE NORTH OF LEWISTOWN
THROUGH MILES CITY STARTED MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 20 MPH CAUSING
RAPID TEMPERATURE DROPS AND LARGE TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES OVER
SHORT DISTANCES. THE FRONT HAS MOVED 100 MILES SINCE EARLY THIS
MORNING PASSING THROUGH BILLINGS AND LAUREL EARLY THIS AFTERNOON.
TEMPERATURE DROPS WERE RAPID...FOR EXAMPLE AT THE BILLINGS AIRPORT
THE TEMPERATURE DROPPED FROM 43 DEGREES TO 25 DEGREES IN THE 5
MINUTES ENDING AT 1215 PM. SOUTHWEST OF BROADUS AT BRADSHAW
CREEK...THE TEMPERATURE WAS 51 DEGREES AT 1230 PM WHILE 20 MILES
NORTH AT FORT HOWES THE TEMPERATURE WAS 25 DEGREES. A SHARPER
DIFFERENCE WAS BETWEEN JUDITH GAP AND HARLOWTOWN AT 2 PM. THE
TEMPERATURE AT JUDITH GAP WAS 1 DEGREE WHILE 19 MILES SOUTH NEAR
HARLOWTOWN IT WAS 47 DEGREES ALONG THE MUSSELSHELL RIVER...A 46
DEGREE DIFFERENCE.
THE RAPID TEMPERATURE CHANGES HAVE BEEN ACCOMPANIED BY A WIND
SHIFT TO THE NORTHEAST WITH 20 MPH WINDS AND WIND CHILLS IN THE
SINGLE DIGITS ABOVE AND BELOW ZERO.
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