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High Wind in Bears Paw Mountains and Southern Blaine, Montana
High Wind February 17, 2026 · Bears Paw Mountains and Southern Blaine, Montana
What the National Weather Service wrote
RAWS station FBLM8 Fort Belknap RAWS measured a 62 mph gust in the early afternoon.
The wider storm
A strengthening upper level trough across CA and vicinity sent an embedded wave northeastward toward the Northern Rockies Feb 17, which resulted in surface low pressure developing and moving across Southwest Montana. This resulted in a strong cold front progressing through the area, bringing brief snow squalls, synoptic high winds, localized impactful snow, and very cold wind chills to various portions of the region into Feb 18.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1317037. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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