Flathead Lake 5 WSW KERR DAM POLSONKERM8
At a dam/2.6 mi away/2,733 ft/336 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Lake Wind Advisory is in force for Kerr until 7 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Kerr is 42° and mostly clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 33°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the south-southeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 40° by 7 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 69°, and the coolest Sunday, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 36°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 35% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 10:00 PM in Kerr, Montana.
Air quality
Index 43, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Flathead Valley (MT), 47 miles off.
Yesterday measured 33, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Kerr, MontanaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Kerr, 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
Flathead Lake 5 WSW KERR DAM POLSONKERM8
At a dam/2.6 mi away/2,733 ft/336 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW6663EW6663
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.7 mi away/2,929 ft/140 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Ronanairport7S0
At an airfield/8.5 mi away/3,079 ft/10 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Elmo US-93 MP 77.5MTELM
Beside a road/12.9 mi away/2,910 ft/159 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Polson 1.0 SSEMT-LK-17
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/3,370 ft/301 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Polson Kerr DamKERM8
At a dam/2.6 mi away/2,733 ft/336 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.5 mi from Kerr, Montana. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 10:35 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 northeast (50 degrees) at 5 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
Measured at Flathead Lake 5 WSW KERR DAM POLSON (KERM8), 2.6 miles from here, read 16 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.