Noisy Basin SnotelNOIM8
A snow pillow on a mountain/10.4 mi away/6,040 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Long Beach is 44° and clear at 8 PM. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the northeast at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 31° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Saturday, near 66°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and sets at 9:22 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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, 4 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 8:00 PM in Long Beach, Montana.
Air quality
Index 31, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Flathead Valley (MT), 23 miles off.
Yesterday measured 40, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 12 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 7 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 12 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Long Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Noisy Basin SnotelNOIM8
A snow pillow on a mountain/10.4 mi away/6,040 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beside a road/10.8 mi away/3,051 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW4174GW4174
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.8 mi away/3,048 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
KalispellGPI
At an airfield/20.3 mi away/2,979 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Bigfork 3.5 ESEMT-LK-15
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.7 mi away/3,061 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
CrestonCRSM8
At a cooperative observer's station/10.8 mi away/2,953 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Creston (CRSM8), 10.8 miles from here, read 6 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.