Now. Ravalli County Airport is 41° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the southeast at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 68° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 44° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 71°, and the coolest Thursday, near 57°. Rain is possible Thursday (32%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:48 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:28 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 10 hours 54 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Ravalli County Airport, Montana.
Air quality
Index 37, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Hamilton (MT), 1 mile off.
Yesterday measured 29, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 / 35 | 5,200 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 183° / 3° | - | - |
Measured here
Every hour from Hamilton (HRF), Ravalli County Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
39 F at 9 PM Thursday; 59 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 27 F at its coolest, 7 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 35 F, the air 87% saturated; the humidity ran from 44% at 4 PM Thursday to 98% at 8 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
5 mph from the south southeast at 9 PM Thursday; at its strongest 6 mph, 5 AM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.62 inHg at 9 PM Thursday, rising 0.03 inHg over 3 hours; 0.12 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 8 miles at 12 PM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Hamilton: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Ravalli County Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
HamiltonHRF
At an airfield/0.2 mi away/3,605 ft/37 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Gird Point RAWSGPRM8
A remote fire weather station/10.6 mi away/6,785 ft/3,143 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beside a road/38.2 mi away/3,176 ft/466 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Hamilton 3.7 SEMT-RV-16
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.7 mi away/3,918 ft/276 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
DarbyDRBM8
At a cooperative observer's station/15.7 mi away/3,885 ft/243 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.