Click for 7 Day Forecast Summer is slipping away as autumn arrives. And the cooler temperatures are bringing rain and snow with them.

Regional highs will be mainly in the 50s and 60s Thursday, trending a little warmer East of Billings. As a trough of low pressure digs in, the chance of rain will increase from West to East throughout the afternoon and evening hours.

By Thursday night, the chance of rain is excellent across the area with mountain snow especially above 7000 feet.

Despite the warm ground and wet snow, accumulations in the Beartooths/Absarokas could be a foot or more, with up to a foot across the Big Horn Mountains. Red Lodge could have an inch or two of wet snow on the ground early Saturday.

For the lower elevations, much of the region will receive 1 to 2 inches in total accumulation through Saturday.

Temperatures will become very cool, with readings and they 30s and 40s early Friday and only a few degrees warmer with highs in the 40s to low 50s Friday afternoon.

Billings forecast:

Thursday… Showers increasing in the afternoon. A high of about 58. North breeze 5 to 15 mph.

Thursday night… Showers. A low near 43.

Friday… Rain. Around 45 for the high.