Beside a road/1.7 mi away/3,051 ft/112 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Bear Dance is 40° and clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 33°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the east-southeast at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 30° 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 68°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 56°. 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Bear Dance, Montana.
Air quality
Index 49, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Flathead Valley (MT), 32 miles off.
Yesterday measured 40, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 22 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
On the radar over Bear Dance, MontanaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Bear Dance, 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
Beside a road/1.7 mi away/3,051 ft/112 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Ronan RAWSRONM8
A remote fire weather station/6.8 mi away/2,890 ft/273 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW6663EW6663
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.6 mi away/2,929 ft/234 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Ronanairport7S0
At an airfield/23.9 mi away/3,079 ft/84 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Big Fork 13 SBFSM8
At a cooperative observer's station/2.4 mi away/2,897 ft/266 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Bigfork 3.5 ESEMT-LK-15
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.8 mi away/3,061 ft/102 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 23.9 mi from Bear Dance, 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.
33.8 F with a dew point of 33.8 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground.
From the east northeast (60 degrees) at 6 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Ronanairport, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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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.