25 Road miles west of Yellowstone Park, this tower, with its four cameras, is on the east side of Highway 87. Highway 87 is a short stretch of connector which runs up a broad valley from Highway 20, 10 miles south, to Highway 287, 7 miles north. Of the four cameras on the tower, this is the the one which never gets to see much of the scenery here as it spends its days (and nights) studiously focused on the road surface, checking for scorpions, rattlesnakes and '32 roadsters.
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: