Missouri River AT Fort BentonFBNM8
At a river or reservoir gauge/17.2 mi away/2,635 ft/766 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Highwood is 35° and mostly clear at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 28°. The dew point is 28°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the south at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 67° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° by 3 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 72°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 25 mph. Frost is possible Monday morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:33 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:07 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 51 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Highwood, Montana.
Air quality
Index 11, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Choteau (MT), 67 miles off.
Yesterday measured 18, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. 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 Highwood, MontanaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Highwood, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 13.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Missouri River AT Fort BentonFBNM8
At a river or reservoir gauge/17.2 mi away/2,635 ft/766 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW6270GW6270
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.3 mi away/2,627 ft/774 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/19.1 mi away/3,527 ft/126 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
GeyserMTGYS
Beside a road/27.4 mi away/4,196 ft/795 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Belt 2.7 NNWMT-CC-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.7 mi away/3,755 ft/354 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Fort BentonFTBM8
At a cooperative observer's station/16.6 mi away/2,631 ft/770 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 19.1 mi from Highwood, Montana. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
35.2 F with a dew point of 30.0 F, 81 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,200 ft up.
From the south southeast (150 degrees) at 8 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Malmstrom AFB, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Fort Benton (FTBM8), 16.6 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. 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.