Tropical Storm Ana headed for western Canada next week

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Hurricane Ana formed in the tropical eastern pacific back on October 17th and skirted past the Hawaiian Islands a few days later. Ana has weakened to a tropical storm and continues to spin her way into colder waters north of Hawaii.

Forecast models continue to predict this storm to lift into higher latitudes and the polar jet stream will grab hold of her and kick this storm to the east. By early next week the track of this storm will hit the west coast of Canada by early Tuesday morning.

What does this mean for Montana? This storm system should continue to weaken as it moves eastward toward the coast down to a subtropical low and as it moves inland into British Columbia the storm will continue to weaken.

Right now, forecast models are increasing the chances for rain in Montana as the storm moves into southern and central Alberta Tuesday and Wednesday. This storm is a warm based system thus it should be mainly a rain maker for Montana with very high snow levels and right now we do not anticipate wintry travel from this storm Tuesday and Wednesday of next week.

As this storm exits Montana warm air could linger over the state and with a building High pressure ridge temperatures will climb back into the 60's for Halloween.

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