Brooks, Montana — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Brooks, Fergus County.
Full aviation weather for Brooks is published on the Lewistown Municipal Airport (KLWT) page, 18 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted. 2 airfields within reach of Brooks have their own pages, listed below.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Other airports near Brooks: Winifred Airport (K9S7) 39 km
Conditions reported at KLWT describe the airfield itself. Weather 18 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Brooks specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Brooks.
Brooks, a quiet settlement, exhales the vastness of Montana's prairie under an immense sky. It lies 90.3 miles east-south-east of Great Falls, MT (from Great Falls, MT: bearing 102°T), and is situated 9.8 miles north of Lewistown. The land here is a study in subtle color and enduring form, where low, rolling hills, softened by the relentless sculpting of wind and weather, give way to broad, open plains. Sparse grasses, a mosaic of ochre, sage, and sun-bleached straw, carpet the terrain, broken only by the occasional hardy sagebrush or the stark silhouette of a lone cottonwood tree. The air, especially as the sun begins its descent, carries a crisp, clean scent, tinged with the dry earth and the distant promise of rain. Even in the stillness, there's a palpable sense of movement, a silent testament to the ceaseless forces that shaped this landscape. The history of Brooks is inextricably linked to the lifeblood of agriculture that has long sustained this corner of Fergus County. Ranching and grain farming are the bedrock of its economy, the cycles of planting and harvest dictating the rhythm of life. Evidence of this enduring connection can be seen in the sturdy, weathered farmsteads scattered across the horizon, their corrugated tin roofs gleaming faintly in the sunlight. While no grand monuments mark its past, the very soil beneath one's feet holds the stories of generations who worked this land, their resilience mirroring the toughness of the prairie itself. Brooks remains a place where the horizon stretches endlessly, a constant reminder of the elemental beauty and quiet strength of the American West.
Live animated radar for Brooks and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
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| Location | Brooks, Fergus County, Montana |
| Coordinates | 47.204143°N, 109.421294°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 59457 |
| Area Code | 406 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Brooks, Montana, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Brooks includes coordinates 47.204143°N, 109.421294°W, situated in Fergus County. ZIP code 59457. Telephone area code: 406. Timezone: Mountain Time (America/Denver).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.