A winter storm has been impacting Montana for the past few days bringing falling temperatures, widespread accumulating snow, breezy conditions, and hazardous travel conditions.

The snow began to develop Thursday afternoon and became more widespread Thursday evening and night. Friday was a snowy day across the entire state, and some of the snow that fell on Friday was heavy at times. The snow began to taper off in western Montana during the morning and gradually tapered off in central Montana Friday afternoon through Friday night. The snow lingered in portions of eastern Montana through the night, but came to an end early this morning.

This snow made travel difficult due to slick/snow-covered roads as well as near-whiteout conditions at times due to the combination of falling and blowing/

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