Georgetown Lake Road Camera - Georgetown Lake, MT
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member T0SHEA
N 46° 11.447 W 113° 15.938
12T E 325172 N 5117739
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: WMTWW5
Location: Montana, United States
Date Posted: 01/15/2017
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Lord Elwood
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Right on the shore of Georgetown Lake, the four cameras on this tower have all the roads here well covered. The tower is on the east edge of Highway i, AKA the Pintler Veterans Memorial Scenic Highway, at the intersection with Southern Cross Road, about midway between Philipsburg, to the north, and Anaconda, to the east. This camera looks directly down at the road surface, today checking for snow.

Georgetown Lake is technically a reservoir, originally created in the late 19th century by impounding North Fork Flint Creek in a meadow known as Georgetown Flats. In 1901, Flint Creek Dam was enlarged by the Montana Water, Electric Power, and Mining Company to produce electricity for nearby mining operations.
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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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