At an airfield/2.9 mi away/3,527 ft/271 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 12 degrees warmer: a high of 69° after 57° today.
Now. Giant Springs State Park is 39° and mostly clear at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 33°. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the south-southeast at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 36° by 11 PM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Saturday, near 73°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is Saturday, with wind to 26 mph. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 55 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Giant Springs State Park, Montana.
Air quality
Index 3, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Choteau (MT), 49 miles off.
Yesterday measured 18, 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 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Giant Springs State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/2.9 mi away/3,527 ft/271 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
At an airfield/8.1 mi away/3,665 ft/409 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW5493FW5493
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.5 mi away/3,391 ft/135 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Monarch Canyon US-89 MP 53.5MTMON
Beside a road/33.0 mi away/5,220 ft/1,964 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Great Falls 2.6 EMT-CC-14
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/3,455 ft/199 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Great Falls 16 St SGTFM8
At a cooperative observer's station/3.7 mi away/3,438 ft/182 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.