Beside a road/6.5 mi away/4,324 ft/343 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A High Wind Watch is in force for Bynum 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 67° after 54° today.
Now. Bynum is 37° and clear at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 31°. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the southwest at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight holds near 37°, under a mostly clear sky. 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 57°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is Saturday, with wind to 24 mph. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
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 Bynum, Montana.
Air quality
Index 3, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Choteau (MT), 12 miles off.
Yesterday measured 18, 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
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The 6 instruments nearest Bynum, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Beside a road/6.5 mi away/4,324 ft/343 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Teton Rvr Wx Station Nr FarmingtonFRMM8
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.0 mi away/3,855 ft/126 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW6973GW6973
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.5 mi away/3,761 ft/220 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Conrad Ag RcS2117
At a soil climate station/28.8 mi away/3,706 ft/275 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Bynum 4 SseBYNM8
At a cooperative observer's station/3.9 mi away/4,035 ft/54 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Fairfield 5.0 NNEMT-TN-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/26.9 mi away/3,911 ft/70 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 6.5 mi from Bynum, Montana. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:15 PM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
35.0 F with a dew point of 28.2 F, 76 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,500 ft up.
From the south southwest (203 degrees) at 12 mph, gusting 13 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 28 mph.
At 4,324 ft above sea level, 15 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 25.53 inHg and the temperature at 43.6 F; it reports 35.0 F, 8.6 F colder than standard.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Bynum 4 Sse (BYNM8), 3.9 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.