Steele Creek RAWSSLCM8
A remote fire weather station/14.8 mi away/6,352 ft/187 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Big Hole National Battlefield is 32° and mostly clear at 6 AM. The dew point is 23°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the east-southeast at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 59° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 30° by 6 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 tomorrow, near 65°, and the coolest Friday, near 43°. Rain is likely Friday (88%). Rain is possible Thursday (35%) and Saturday (30%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 28°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:44 PM. The Moon is a first quarter, 52% lit, and sets at 12:38 AM after midnight. 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 bright Moon hides all but the brightest of them. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 10 hours 50 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 6:00 AM in Big Hole National Battlefield, Montana.
Air quality
Index 40, good, led by fine particles. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Salmon (ID), 34 miles off.
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 30, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Tue 12 AM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Sun 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Tue 12 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 4 instruments nearest Big Hole National Battlefield, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 9.6 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Steele Creek RAWSSLCM8
A remote fire weather station/14.8 mi away/6,352 ft/187 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Big Hole Pass CTY-278 MP 32MTBHP
Beside a road/28.1 mi away/6,719 ft/554 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
WisdomWISM8
At a cooperative observer's station/9.6 mi away/6,050 ft/115 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Polaris 2.7 NMT-BV-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/30.3 mi away/6,583 ft/418 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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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.