Winter Weather in Eastern Carbon, Montana

Highway 212 was closed for nearly four hours during the afternoon and evening on February 5th due to a fatal crash three miles west of Joliet. According to Montana Highway Patrol, a man was driving southbound and attempted to pass a pickup in front of him, but with whiteout conditions created from a plow further ahead, he could not see a car coming from the opposite direction. This caused a chain-reaction crash.

Arctic air at the surface, combined with a moist flow off the Pacific, resulted in an over-running event which brought heavy snow across the entire Billings Forecast area.