At an airfield/5.5 mi away/5,545 ft/624 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Now. Walkerville is 32° and clear at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 28°. The dew point is 32°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the southeast at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 27° 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 59°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 51°. Rain is possible Wednesday (32%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 25°.
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 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 58 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Walkerville, Montana.
Air quality
Index 31, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Helena (MT), 46 miles off.
Yesterday measured 34, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 8 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
On the radar over Walkerville, MontanaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Walkerville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/5.5 mi away/5,545 ft/624 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Elk ParkMTELK
Beside a road/10.0 mi away/6,273 ft/104 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Basin Creek SnotelBSCM8
A snow pillow on a mountain/16.1 mi away/7,180 ft/1,011 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Walkerville 1.8 SSWMT-SB-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.4 mi away/5,681 ft/488 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Butte - Montana TechMTTM8
At a cooperative observer's station/1.5 mi away/5,767 ft/402 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 5.5 mi from Walkerville, Montana. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 8:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
37.0 F with a dew point of 32.0 F, 82 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,100 ft up.
From the south southeast (150 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Butte/Bert Mooney, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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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.