At an airfield/8.2 mi away/2,457 ft/179 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 13 degrees warmer: a high of 75° after 62° today.
Now. Makoshika State Park is 27° and mostly clear at 7 AM. With the wind it feels like 19°. The dew point is 20°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the south at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 60° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° by 5 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 64°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:10 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 9:44 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 53 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 7:00 AM in Makoshika State Park, Montana.
Air quality
Index 15, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Theodore Roosevelt National Park (ND), 54 miles off.
Yesterday measured 26, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 12 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 12 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Makoshika State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/8.2 mi away/2,457 ft/179 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Buffalo Rapids-Glendive AgrimetBRGM8
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.4 mi away/2,133 ft/145 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beaver Hill I-94 MP 234.8MTBVR
Beside a road/15.7 mi away/2,749 ft/471 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
LindsayS0581
At a soil climate station/26.8 mi away/2,871 ft/593 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
GlendiveGNDM8
At a cooperative observer's station/3.5 mi away/2,067 ft/211 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Glendive 2.3 NMT-DW-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.6 mi away/2,122 ft/156 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Glendive (GNDM8), 3.5 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. 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.