Beacon Hill US-87 MP 35.0MTBCH
Beside a road/14.1 mi away/4,203 ft/605 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Tomorrow is 16 degrees warmer: a high of 69° after 53° today.
Now. Ayers Ranch Colony is 32° and clear at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 27°. The dew point is 24°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the south at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight holds near 32°, 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 76°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
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 56 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Ayers Ranch Colony, Montana.
Air quality
Index 28, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Lewistown (MT), 24 miles off.
Yesterday measured 35, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
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
On the radar over Ayers Ranch Colony, MontanaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Ayers Ranch Colony, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Beacon Hill US-87 MP 35.0MTBCH
Beside a road/14.1 mi away/4,203 ft/605 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
GrassrangeMVH
At an airfield/14.7 mi away/4,393 ft/795 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Judith RAWSJPKM8
A remote fire weather station/17.4 mi away/6,351 ft/2,753 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Grass RangeGSSM8
At a cooperative observer's station/6.9 mi away/3,488 ft/110 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Lewistown 0.4 SWMT-FG-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/23.0 mi away/4,019 ft/421 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 14.7 mi from Ayers Ranch Colony, Montana. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
26.6 F with a dew point of 21.2 F, 80 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,200 ft up.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 6 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 43 mph.
The full report of Grassrange, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Grass Range (GSSM8), 6.9 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 18:00. 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.