At the intersection of Highway 12 and a gravel Road named Panorama Drive, this tower holds four cameras. The elevation here, at mile 23.5, is 5870 feet. It's fairly well isolated here, the nearest town to the west being Townsend, 23 miles away, and the nearest town east is White Sulphur Springs, 18 miles northeast, on Highway 89. Helena is nearly 55 miles northwest from here. This is one of two cameras looking west, this one zoomed in on the corner about a third of a mile west.
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: