Just southeast of the little town of Geyser on Highway 3/87/200, this tower stands on the southwest side of the highway a little over 40 miles southeast of Great Falls. The tower is at a junction with two other roads, Spring Meadow Road/Highway 114, running north-south, and Merino Road/Highway 202, on the east side of the highway, changing to Highway 128 on the west side. One of three cameras on the tower, this one is looking down at the road surface.
Here in Judith Basin County, there are not a lot of people to be found. Geyser, population about 500, is 25% larger than the county seat of Stanford and accounts for 1/4 of the population of the entire county. Lots of wide open spaces under this little bit of Big Sky Country.
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: