Carter, Montana Weather
Carter, Montana — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Carter, Chouteau County.
Full aviation weather for Carter is published on the Fort Benton Airport (K79S) page, 25 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. 4 airfields within reach of Carter 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 Carter: Great Falls International Airport (KGTF) 46 km · Geraldine Airport (K5U8) 56 km · Dutton Airport (K5U1) 56 km
Conditions reported at K79S describe the airfield itself. Weather 25 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Carter specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Carter.
About Carter, Montana
Carter, Montana, unfolds across a landscape etched by wind and time, where the vastness of the northern plains meets a sky that stretches to infinity. It lies 25.2 miles north-east of Great Falls, MT (from Great Falls, MT: bearing 39°T), and is situated 13.7 miles west of Fort Benton. Rolling hills, cloaked in the muted greens and golds of prairie grasses, rise and fall like a slumbering giant, their contours softened by the persistent caress of the elements. The air here carries a crisp, clean scent, tinged with the dry perfume of sagebrush and the distant, earthy aroma of livestock. Sunlight, when it breaks through the clouds, paints the land in broad strokes of amber and ochre, and the silence, when it settles, is profound, broken only by the whisper of the wind or the cry of a hawk circling high above. This corner of Chouteau County, though sparse in settlement, holds the quiet resilience of those who have weathered its challenges, a history woven into the very fabric of its economy. Ranching, a tradition as old as the territory itself, remains the lifeblood of Carter, with cattle grazing on expansive pastures that have sustained families for generations. The occasional weathered barn, its paint long surrendered to the sun and snow, stands as a silent sentinel to a bygone era, while the functional simplicity of modern farmsteads speaks to a continuing, pragmatic spirit. The distant glint of water, perhaps a slow-moving creek or the shimmer of a distant reservoir, hints at the vital, life-giving resource that underpins this hardy existence, a constant reminder of the natural forces that shape life in Carter.
Live animated radar for Carter 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 | Carter, Chouteau County, Montana |
| Coordinates | 47.781078°N, 110.956338°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 59420 |
| Area Code | 406 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Carter, Montana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Carter, 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 Carter includes coordinates 47.781078°N, 110.956338°W, situated in Chouteau County. ZIP code 59420. 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.
