Beside a road/8.5 mi away/3,009 ft/39 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Les Mason State Park is 47° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the south-southwest at 1 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 70° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 42° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 59): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 71°, and the coolest Sunday, near 46°. Rain is likely Saturday (52%). Rain is possible Sunday (40%). The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 28°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:06 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 4:14 AM after midnight. The next new Moon is Saturday, Oct 10. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 23 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Les Mason State Park, Montana.
Air quality
Index 59, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Flathead Valley (MT), 11 miles off.
Yesterday measured 48, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Wed 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 44 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Mon 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Wed 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Les Mason State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Beside a road/8.5 mi away/3,009 ft/39 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Stillwater RAWSSTWM8
A remote fire weather station/10.3 mi away/3,331 ft/283 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
KalispellGPI
At an airfield/11.7 mi away/2,979 ft/69 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.0 mi away/3,711 ft/663 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Whitefish 2.2 NEMT-FH-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.8 mi away/3,590 ft/542 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Kalispell 9 NNEKSPM8
At a cooperative observer's station/11.6 mi away/2,963 ft/85 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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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.