The cold to start March has not been you’re typical early spring chill. It’s a cold that rivals even mid-winter cold outbreaks.

While several communities across Montana shivered their coldest March temperature in decades or on record.

https://twitter.com/NWSGreatFalls/status/1103388858186633218

https://twitter.com/WeatherMatrix/status/1102239388182999043

Elk Park’s -46F appears to have set a new state March record low.

Until confirmed, the current record-holding lows in Montana for the month of March are two minus 45-degree readings in Glasgow and Fort Logan in 1897 and 1906.