The National Weather Service is predicting a system with heavy rains to move into western Montana starting Sunday and lasting most of the following week.
Rain has been falling steadily all night around western Montana, according to meteorologist Leeanne Allegretto with the National Weather Service Office in Missoula. She provided the overnight numbers as of 4:00 a.m.
As the rain started falling in Missoula on Tuesday, the County Commissioners issued an emergency proclamation, according to the Director of the Office of Emergency Management, Adriane Beck.