Another of the many highway cameras along I 90, this four camera tower is about 2 miles east of a dot on the map known as Ninemile and sixteen or so miles northwest of Missoula. The tower is on the south side of I 90 just west of the Big Horn Road interchange and a half mile east of the bridge over the Clark Fork River. Of the four, this camera is looking east toward the interchange which is mostly around the corner and out of sight.
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.
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