Montana is the Weather Capital of the US Right Now

While the majority of the US is in no-man’s-land in terms of weather, Montana has been producing some incredible storms. When I say incredible, I mean incredible.

Because the ridge has been so prevalent across the central and eastern portions of the US, Montana has been excellently placed within southwesterly mid and upper level flow. This has worked well for them, as shortwaves have been propagating northeastward within the larger scale flow.

Surface moisture and heating has been fairly good across the region, and this has lead to unstable environments. Combine that with good speed and directional shear, the state has seen some of the best storms in a couple weeks. Check em out!

Thank you #Montana. #MTwx pic.twitter.com/nFAlH2CqkB

— D☈D (@drdabroholos) June 11, 2016

The wild west was rowdy in Montana today! #WKU #MTwx pic.twitter.com/OQu0f5jaEp

— WKU Sto☈m Chase☈s (@wkustormchase) June 11, 2016

Severe storm about 30 mins ago Geraldine MT. Vertical vorticity tubes rotated down north face awesome.#mtwx pic.twitter.com/cDk0sDDGkM

— Jeff Piotrowski (@Jeff_Piotrowski) June 10, 2016

Heading back west out of Sidney, MT today. Perhaps more beautiful storms like this one from yesterday. #WKU pic.twitter.com/x4c8xwHBzm

— WKU Sto☈m Chase☈s (@wkustormchase) June 10, 2016

#gorgeous #supercell #storm in western Garfield County, Montana. #MTwx pic.twitter.com/uB4Xc4X9rv

— Team StormChaseTV (@StormChaseTV) June 9, 2016

About 40 minutes ago as RFD wrapped up near Grass Range. #mtwx pic.twitter.com/lD978R14Vx

— Grady Dixon (@pgradydixon) June 9, 2016

These are some of the coolest looking storms that I have ever seen, and their structure fascinates me. What is frustrating is that some of these were out of good radar range, so we won’t get a good look at their radar structure. Oh well; it is just cool to see a different place have amazing storm structure.