Trout Creek Web Camera - Trout Creek, MT
Posted by: T0SHEA
N 47° 49.468 W 115° 34.350
11T E 606844 N 5297777
This is one of 73 (as of February 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: WMV1WM
Location: Montana, United States
Date Posted: 02/09/2017
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One of several camera towers along Montana's Highway 200, this one is on the southwest side of the highway just south of a road named Island Park Drive South. From here, though, one can see neither an island nor a park. We're right beside the Clark Fork River, though, and there is an island in the river just a bit north. There are hydro dams on the Clark Fork both north and south from here, the nearest and the largest, the Noxon Dam, is 12 miles north. The single camera on the tower here looks north toward the town of Trout Creek and the Noxon Dam.
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.