Bad Rock Canyon partially flooded
Cars negotiate flood waters in the Bad Rock Canyon.
Locals roads are seeing flooding, though rivers have not risen above minor flood stage so far as rains continue in the Flathead Valley.
In the Columbia Falls and Canyon area U.S. Highway 2 through the Bad Rock Canyon is partially flooded, with about two feet of water in the eastbound lane as of 7:30 p.m.
The water isn’t from the Flathead River — it’s running off Columbia Mountain. The Montana Department of Transportation has reduced speeds to 35 mph.
The Blankenship Road is also seeing flooding as water runs off nearby streams.
Glacier National Park is quite cold — it was 36 degrees at the Going-to-the-Sun Road about 5 p.m.
Snow was falling roughly 500 feet above the road, though it was raining on the road surface.
The Flathead River is projected to rise to 16.37 feet by next week, as much warmer weather and thunderstorms are predicted by week’s end.