Montpelier, ID 83254 Weather

Bear Lake County2:02 PM MDT42.35°N, 111.32°W

Current conditions

Partly Sunny
63°
Partly Sunny
Feels like 63°
High 65°·Low 36°
WindS 8 mph gusts 18 mph
Humidity53%
Dew point46°
Visibility10 mi
Cloud cover66%
UV index4 Moderate
Sunrise7:47 AM
Sunset6:34 PM

Forecast for this hour (no station report in the last two hours)

Forecast

10-day

  • This Afternoon

    Mostly cloudy. High near 65, with temperatures falling to around 62 in the afternoon. South southeast wind 7 to 12 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph.

  • Tonight

    A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8pm, then a chance of rain between 11pm and midnight, then showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy. Low around 36, with temperatures rising to around 41 overnight. South southeast wind 7 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%.

  • Friday

    Rain. Mostly cloudy. High near 49, with temperatures falling to around 46 in the afternoon. South wind 8 to 12 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.

National Weather Service forecast updated 1 hr ago.

Hourly

Hourly forecast
  1. Now Partly Sunny 63°
  2. 3 PM Mostly Cloudy 64°
  3. 4 PM Cloudy 63°
  4. 5 PM Cloudy 62°
  5. 6 PM Mostly Cloudy 59°11%
  6. 7 PM Mostly Cloudy 56°10%
  7. 8 PM Mostly Cloudy 53°14%
  8. 9 PM Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms 52°22%
  9. 10 PM Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms 50°23%
  10. 11 PM Chance Showers And Thunderstorms 48°31%
  11. Fri12 AM Chance Showers And Thunderstorms 47°54%
  12. 1 AM Showers And Thunderstorms 45°77%
  13. 2 AM Showers And Thunderstorms 45°95%
  14. 3 AM Showers And Thunderstorms 43°87%
  15. 4 AM Showers And Thunderstorms Likely 42°56%
  16. 5 AM Chance Showers And Thunderstorms 41°51%
  17. 6 AM Chance Light Rain 40°38%
  18. 7 AM Chance Light Rain 37°26%
  19. 8 AM Chance Light Rain 39°33%
  20. 9 AM Chance Light Rain 40°34%
  21. 10 AM Light Rain Likely 44°71%
  22. 11 AM Light Rain Likely 45°71%
  23. 12 PM Light Rain Likely 46°65%
  24. 1 PM Light Rain Likely 48°58%

10-day forecast

Details
  1. TodayOct 22 Mostly Cloudy Mostly Cloudy99%36°65°
  2. FriOct 23 Light Rain Light Rain82%28°49°
  3. SatOct 24 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny26°51°
  4. SunOct 25 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny26°53°
  5. MonOct 26 Sunny Sunny17%27°55°
  6. TueOct 27 Chance Light Snow Chance Light Snow29%25°52°
  7. WedOct 28 Sunny Sunny27°52°
  8. ThuOct 29 Sunny Sunny26°47°
  9. FriOct 30 Partly cloudy Partly cloudy28°49°
  10. SatOct 31 Mostly sunny Mostly sunny28°49°

Days after the National Weather Service's seven are MET Norway's outlook, a computer model with no forecaster's review.

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Air quality

22
Good
Fine particles (PM2.5)

Air quality is satisfactory, and air pollution poses little or no risk.

Forecast

  • ThuGood (20)
  • FriGood (20)
  • SatGood (20)

Franklin County, ID reporting area · 2 hrs ago. Data from AirNow (EPA and its state, local and tribal partners); preliminary and subject to change.

Sun & moon

Sunrise 7:47 AM
Sunset 6:34 PM
Daylight 10 h 46 min (−2 min 41 s tomorrow)
Waxing Gibbous · 87% lit
Moonrise 4:42 PM Moonset 3:52 AM
Full moon Oct 26 New moon Nov 9

Almanac

Monthly
Normal high / low53° / 28°
Record high74° (2003)
Record low15° (1996)
Wettest0.18 in (1975)
Month to date1.11 in (normal 0.80 in)

Lifton Pumping Station, records since 1919. Normals 1991–2020. Data from NOAA's Regional Climate Centers (ACIS).

Nearby

Forecasters' discussion

From the National Weather Service office in PIH, issued 2 hrs ago

Key Messages

- Flash Flood Watch for Local Burn Scars: A Flash Flood Watch has been issued for the Wapiti, Ohio, and Big Rock burn scars from late Thursday through Friday, where incoming precipitation could trigger debris flows and rapid runoff.

- Widespread showers and storms arrive late this afternoon and evening.

- Much colder Friday.

Discussion

Issued at 102 AM MDT Thu Oct 22 2026

We continue to monitor our next weather maker. Its a low pressure system off the coast of southern California. It will move inland today, then overhead on Friday, exiting the region on Saturday. There's been some noteworthy changes to the qpf forecast. Numbers have gone down across east Idaho and the Magic Valley while staying about the same for the central mountains. The concern seems to be the amount of drier air over the region. As a result, we are seeing more convective elements than with the last system which was more of a stratiform event. Expect clusters of showers and thunderstorms to move through central and east Idaho late Thursday afternoon, through Thursday night and into Friday morning. Most of the deformation zone a.k.a. wrap around precipitation will stay across the central mountains into the Island Park region on Friday. The NBM mean qpf is now sitting just under an inch for east Idaho and the Magic Valley but still 1.00 to 1.50 inches across the central mountains into the Island Park region. The 50th percentile is just a tad under the mean. The 10th percentile is around 0.50 inches for east Idaho, 0.25 to 0.50 inches for the Magic Valley and 0.50 to 1.00 inches for the central mountains into the Island Park region. The 90th percentile is now 1.00 to 1.50 inches for east Idaho and the Magic Valley, and 1.50 to 2.00 inches for the central mountains. The official WPC forecast is on the dry end, now sitting between the 10th and 25th percentile. So, still a large range of values in the probabilities which indicates that there is still a lot of spread in the model solutions. However, the trend seems to be moving drier. The snowfall forecast still hasn't changed much with most of the snow falling above 7000 feet and mainly across the central mountains. Very little road impacts expected. Very noticeable drop in temps expected from Thursday to Friday, roughly 20 degrees.

Dry weather is likely over the weekend into early next week. Temperatures will be a touch below average over the weekend and return to seasonable levels for next week.

Aviation

Issued at 1131 AM MDT Thu Oct 22 2026

SHRA/ISOL TSRA chances increase through the afternoon, then East Idaho transitions to more widespread RA/SHRA during the overnight. TSRA will have the potential to produce wind gusts over 20kts this afternoon, otherwise winds remain light. As the precipitation becomes more widespread, expect CIGS to fall from VFR to MVFR with isolated pockets of IFR during the overnight. SHRA continue through the day Friday with cold temps and CIGS remaining MVFR.

Fire Weather

Issued at 102 AM MDT Thu Oct 22 2026

Isolated to scattered thunderstorms are expected today. Some gusts to 35 mph are possible near storms. Otherwise winds should remain light. The wetting rains should arrive tonight and continue into Friday.

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