Busby, Montana Weather
Busby, Montana — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Busby, Big Horn County.
Full aviation weather for Busby is published on the Colstrip Airport (KM46) page, 40 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. 3 airfields within reach of Busby 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 Busby: Saint Labre Mission Airport (K3U4) 54 km · Big Horn County Airport (K00U) 59 km
Conditions reported at KM46 describe the airfield itself. Weather 40 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Busby specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Busby.
About Busby, Montana
Busby exists as a quiet punctuation mark on the vast Montana prairie, a place where the horizon stretches with an almost audacious breadth. It lies 76.5 miles east-south-east of Billings, MT (from Billings, MT: bearing 102°T), and is situated 15.2 miles west-south-west of Lame Deer. The land here rolls with a gentle, persistent rhythm, not dramatic hills but the subtle swell of earth sculpted by wind and ancient waters, meeting the sky in an unbroken line. Sparse ranches dot the landscape, their weathered barns and fences stark against the endless expanse of grass and sagebrush, each a small testament to human resilience in this wide-open country. The air, when it’s not carrying the sharp scent of dust, often holds the faint, sweet perfume of wild grasses, a subtle fragrance that speaks of the land’s enduring vitality. Originally a stop along a vital railway line, Busby’s early life was tied to the movement of goods and people across the West. The local economy, even now, remains tethered to the ranching traditions that have long defined this region; cattle graze on pastures that have supported them for generations. There’s a palpable sense of continuity here, a feeling that the present is deeply informed by the past. The few businesses that line the main thoroughfare are practical, serving the immediate needs of those who call this country home, and the pace of life is dictated by the sun’s slow arc across the immense sky, a quiet counterpoint to the relentless march of time elsewhere.
Live animated radar for Busby 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.
Source: NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East · Public domain · Auto-updates on page reload
| Location | Busby, Big Horn County, Montana |
| Coordinates | 45.537205°N, 106.955608°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 59016 |
| Area Code | 406 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Busby, Montana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Busby, 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 Busby includes coordinates 45.537205°N, 106.955608°W, situated in Big Horn County. ZIP code 59016. 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.
