Periods of light snow with light to moderate accumulations are possible each day Saturday through Thursday. Stronger and better organized storm systems on Sunday and again on or about Wednesday will bring potentially heavy accumulations of snow to the mountains and passes surrounding the Columbia Basin.
The valleys of these mountain ranges will likely receive at least moderate and possibly heavy accumulations of snow from these storms.
In Bonners Ferry, snow is possible this afternoon with a 70-percent chance overnight, a 50-percent chance with cooler temperatures on Saturday increasing to 80-percent through the day on Sunday and near to near 100-percent overnight on Sunday, with an overnight low of 21-degrees going into the Monday morning commute.
Three to five inches of new snow could be on the ground Monday morning, with an additional two inches of snow possible on Monday. Snowy weather is expected to taper off next Thursday, though skies are expected to stay mostly cloudy.
Snow in northwest Montana is expected to linger into Friday.