Lookout Pass West Off-Ramp Web Camera - Tammany, MT
Posted by: T0SHEA
N 47° 27.242 W 115° 41.651
11T E 598430 N 5256447
This is one of 73 (as of January 2017) Road Weather Information System camera sites operated by the Montana Department of Transportation to aid motorists as they make their way across BIG SKY Country.
Waymark Code: WMV0D6
Location: Montana, United States
Date Posted: 02/01/2017
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At an elevation of 4540 feet, this tower is along I 90 at the overpass and exit for the Lookout Pass Ski & Recreation Area, just 1,000 feet south of the Idaho border. The tower, with four cameras aboard, is at the centre of the overpass, with a fine view up and down the highway. This particular camera looks north northeast at the northbound off ramp.
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.