Valier 4NVLWM8
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.2 mi away/3,710 ft/254 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A High Wind Watch is in force for Birch Creek Colony until 12 AM Sunday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 13 degrees warmer: a high of 66° after 53° today.
Now. Birch Creek Colony is 37° and clear at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 30°. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the south at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 35° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. 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 55°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is Saturday, with wind to 26 mph. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
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 53 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Birch Creek Colony, Montana.
Air quality
Index 28, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Cut Bank (MT), 25 miles off.
Yesterday measured 19, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 33 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
On the radar over Birch Creek Colony, MontanaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Birch Creek Colony, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 13.2 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Valier 4NVLWM8
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.2 mi away/3,710 ft/254 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beside a road/13.6 mi away/4,324 ft/360 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/25.3 mi away/3,855 ft/109 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Conrad Ag RcS2117
At a soil climate station/25.5 mi away/3,706 ft/258 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Citizen station GW1987GW1987
In a volunteer observer's own ground/27.0 mi away/3,604 ft/360 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Bynum 4 SseBYNM8
At a cooperative observer's station/23.7 mi away/4,035 ft/71 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Cut Bank 0.1 SSWMT-GR-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/27.5 mi away/3,783 ft/181 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 25.3 mi from Birch Creek Colony, Montana. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:56 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
37.0 F with a dew point of 30.0 F, 76 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,600 ft up.
From the south southeast (150 degrees) at 12 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 25 mph.
The full report of Cut Bank (AWOS), in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Bynum 4 Sse (BYNM8), 23.7 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 06:30. 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.