Navajo MT-5 16.7MTRED
Beside a road/5.1 mi away/2,546 ft/232 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Flaxville is 30° and clear at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 25°. The dew point is 28°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northwest at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 23° by 6 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 69°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 23°.
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 51 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Flaxville, Montana.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 6 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Flaxville, MontanaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Flaxville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Navajo MT-5 16.7MTRED
Beside a road/5.1 mi away/2,546 ft/232 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Scobey9S2
At an airfield/12.0 mi away/2,407 ft/371 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Bredette 4SE USCRNGOMM8
At a river or reservoir gauge/21.9 mi away/2,641 ft/137 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Wolf Point 34 NE94059
At a climate reference station/22.5 mi away/2,643 ft/135 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Scobey 3.1 ESEMT-DN-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.0 mi away/2,494 ft/284 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Scobey 4 NWSCOM8
At a cooperative observer's station/14.0 mi away/2,359 ft/419 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 5.1 mi from Flaxville, Montana. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:15 PM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
32.0 F with a dew point of 27.4 F, 83 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,000 ft up.
From the north northwest (338 degrees) at 8 mph, gusting 9 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 52 mph.
At 2,546 ft above sea level, 9 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 27.27 inHg and the temperature at 49.9 F; it reports 32.0 F, 17.9 F colder than standard.
The full report of Navajo MT-5 16.7, in 5 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Scobey 4 NW (SCOM8), 14.0 miles from here, read 12 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.