At a small pullout on the east side of Highway 2 at mile 53.1, the three cameras here are at an elevation of 3030 feet. Within the Kootenai National Forest, here we are at a pullout 20 miles south of Libby, which is at the junction of Highways 2 and 37. Actually it's where 37 begins, or ends, depending on one's direction of travel. This is the roadway camera, looking down at the road at the south end of the pullout immediately north.
One of 73 highway cameras, this is part of Montana's Road Weather Information System (RWIS) which provides not only visual assessments of highways and travel conditions, but meteorological information. RWIS cameras are mounted on a tall steel truss tower adjacent to the roadway along with sensors that measure Air Temperature, Road Air Temperature, Dew Point, Relative Humidity, Wind Speed and Direction, Wind Gusts, Precipitation Intensity, Precipitation Rate, and Precipitation Accumulation. All this data is telemetered to a central location and appears on the appropriate web page in real time.
From the main
RWIS page one may select the image or the data page for each of the 73 cameras. Seven of the RWIS sites are data only and one has a camera only, while the rest have both a camera and data sensors. There is also a
MAP Page, which allows one to see a thumbnail image and the weather data from any of the RWIS sites by clicking on its icon on the map.
Push the buttons below for current: