Greenough Hill MT-200 MP 22.1MTGRN
Beside a road/7.5 mi away/4,091 ft/475 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Potomac is 35° and clear at 6 AM. The dew point is 27°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the south-southeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 65° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 43° by 5 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 Thursday, near 60°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:45 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:23 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 53 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 6:00 AM in Potomac, Montana.
Air quality
Index 12, good, led by fine particles. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Missoula (MT), 21 miles off.
Yesterday measured 22, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 12 AM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 12 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Potomac, MontanaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Potomac, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Greenough Hill MT-200 MP 22.1MTGRN
Beside a road/7.5 mi away/4,091 ft/475 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
StinkwaterSTKM8
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.0 mi away/5,673 ft/2,057 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW8564EW8564
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.2 mi away/3,323 ft/293 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/24.4 mi away/3,189 ft/427 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
PotomacPOTM8
At a cooperative observer's station/0.2 mi away/3,639 ft/23 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Bonner-West Riverside 4.0 SEMT-MS-23
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.1 mi away/3,327 ft/289 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 24.4 mi from Potomac, Montana. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 5:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
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Snow on the ground
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.