On the north side of I 90 just west of the town of Reed Point, this camera tower holds three cameras, one looking east, one west and one down at the ground, or more precisely, the asphalt surface of I 90. Though the tower is in Montana, it is only 4.5 miles east of Quebec, but not the one in Canada. Quebec, Montana is an extinct community on the north side of the highway less than 20 miles east of Big Timber, and everyone has heard of Big Timber, right? Anyhow, of the trio, this is the camera which looks west toward Quebec.
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: