NOAA

September 1 marks the first day of meteorological fall for the National Weather Service, which is looking back at the summer season and finding the hottest average temperatures in over 100 years of data collection.

The numbers don’t lie. It’s been a warm winter.

From tennis ball-sized hail to a tornado touchdown near Roundup, a storm pattern pummeled homes, cars and crops Sunday and Monday.

La Niña, a band of cooler-than-normal ocean water, is once again setting up in the Pacific. This could have far reaching implications not only on Montana’s winter conditions, but our deep drought as well.

It is severe weather season in the Mountain West, when life and death can depend on speed and accuracy of emergency notifications.To help alert residents…

A drought last year in Eastern Montana and the Dakotas may not have been caused by climate change, but climate change may make such extreme events more…