Temperature
27 F at 2 AM; 51 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 25 F at its coolest, 12 AM.
- Now
- 27F
- 2 AM
- Highest
- 51F
- 2 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 25F
- 12 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Now. Mission Field is 28° and clear at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 22°. The dew point is 25°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the west-southwest at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 68° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 45° by 3 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 75°, and the coolest Sunday, near 65°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 mph. Frost is possible Monday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:34 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:15 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 56 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Mission Field, Montana.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 12 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 / 22 | 5,701 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 54° / 234° | 1 mph head, on 04 | 6 mph from the left |
| 08 / 26 unlit | 3,762 ft | 125 ft | Grass | 94° / 274° | 3 mph head, on 26 | 5 mph from the right |
| 13 / 31 unlit | 2,724 ft | 120 ft | Grass | 151° / 331° | 6 mph head, on 31 | None |
Measured here
Every hour from Livingston/Mission (LVM), Mission Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
27 F at 2 AM; 51 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 25 F at its coolest, 12 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 25 F, the air 92% saturated; the humidity ran from 41% at 1 PM Thursday to 96% at 12 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
2 mph from the northwest at 3 AM; at its strongest 13 mph, 1 PM Thursday, with a gust of 20 mph at 1 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.66 inHg at 3 AM, falling 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
10 miles or more every hour.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 2,900 ft at 9 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 8 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Livingston/Mission: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Mission Field, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/4,656 ft/4 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
East Livingston I-90 MP 337.7MTELV
Beside a road/2.9 mi away/4,452 ft/208 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
A snow pillow on a mountain/22.3 mi away/6,335 ft/1,675 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Livingston 6.6 ESEMT-PK-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.5 mi away/5,505 ft/845 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Big TimberBGTM8
At a cooperative observer's station/25.7 mi away/4,112 ft/548 ft below 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.