Noisy Basin SnotelNOIM8
A snow pillow on a mountain/9.2 mi away/6,040 ft/3,065 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Wayfarers Unit - Flathead Lake State Park is 38° and mostly clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the east 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 67°, 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, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 11:00 PM in Wayfarers Unit - Flathead Lake State Park, Montana.
Air quality
Index 41, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Flathead Valley (MT), 22 miles off.
Yesterday measured 40, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 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 Wayfarers Unit - Flathead Lake State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Noisy Basin SnotelNOIM8
A snow pillow on a mountain/9.2 mi away/6,040 ft/3,065 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beside a road/11.9 mi away/3,051 ft/76 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW4174GW4174
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.6 mi away/3,048 ft/73 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
KalispellGPI
At an airfield/19.3 mi away/2,979 ft/4 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Bigfork 3.2 ENEMT-FH-16
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.1 mi away/3,050 ft/75 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
CrestonCRSM8
At a cooperative observer's station/9.7 mi away/2,953 ft/22 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Creston (CRSM8), 9.7 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.