Montana Climate Office Introduces the CSKT PurpleAir Air Quality Sensor Network
The Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) and the Montana Climate Office (MCO) are excited to announce the launch of the CSKT PurpleAir Air Qualit...
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Hardware
Configuring an EnviroCams PTZ Camera
As part of Upper Missouri River Basin Plains Snowpack and Soil Moisture Monitoring program, daily photos are provided from each mesonet station. At the Monta...
Montana Drought & Climate
Montana Drought & Climate — January 2026 Update
Welcome to the 2026 Montana Drought & Climate newsletter series. In this series, we will provide monthly updates and information about snowpack, drought ...
Update
Montana Drought & Climate — January 2026 Update
Welcome to the 2026 Montana Drought & Climate newsletter series. In this series, we will provide monthly updates and information about snowpack, drought ...
Code
Backing up a Dockerized Community Edition Neo4j Database
Neo4j is a platform for managing graph databases. The Montana Climate Office uses Neo4j Community Edition to manage a database of satellite data associated w...
Guides
How to Set Up UTM and ArcGIS on a Mac
Below is a tutorial on how to spin up a Windows virtual machine and install ArcGIS on the new Mac machines with Apple Silicon chips.
mesonet
Explore Montana’s Weather Stations Through a New Lens
If you’ve ever wondered what conditions actually look like on the ground at one of the Montana Mesonet’s weather stations — not just what the sensors are rec...