St. MaryMRYM8
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.9 mi away/4,551 ft/38 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A High Wind Watch is in force for Babb until 12 AM Sunday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Babb is 55° and clear at 12 PM. The dew point is 29°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the southwest at 16 mph, gusting to 30 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 58° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Monday, near 60°, and the coolest Sunday, near 53°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 26 mph. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:42 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:11 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 48 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 PM in Babb, Montana.
Air quality
Index 7, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 PM from its reporting area, Glacier National Park (MT), 35 miles off.
Yesterday measured 25, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 6 AM: the index from smoke stays at 39 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 11 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 6 AM.
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The 5 instruments nearest Babb, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 8.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
St. MaryMRYM8
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.9 mi away/4,551 ft/38 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
St. Mary 1 SSW04130
At a climate reference station/9.0 mi away/4,555 ft/42 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Two Medicine Bridge US-2 MP 210. MT US MT DOTMTBRN
Beside a road/30.9 mi away/4,915 ft/402 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
St. MaryMRYM8
At a cooperative observer's station/8.9 mi away/4,551 ft/38 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Cut Bank 23.9 NWMT-GR-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/31.0 mi away/4,302 ft/211 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 30.9 mi from Babb, Montana. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 11:30 AM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
58.0 F with a dew point of 7.4 F, 13 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 11,200 ft up.
From the west (270 degrees) at 27 mph, gusting 35 mph: force 6, a strong breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 45 mph.
At 4,915 ft above sea level, 17 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 24.98 inHg and the temperature at 41.5 F; it reports 58.0 F, 16.5 F warmer than standard.
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Snow on the ground
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