Wise River RAWSWRSM8
A remote fire weather station/11.6 mi away/6,086 ft/2,457 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Montana/Alder Pass
Alder Pass, Montana
Mountain pass in Beaverhead County, Montana, at 8,543 ft21°
52°/19°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 13°·Light breeze 6 mph SW
Now. Alder Pass is 21° and mostly clear at 7 AM. With the wind it feels like 13°. The dew point is 10°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the southwest at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 27° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 53°, and the coolest Thursday, near 44°. Rain is possible Wednesday (32%) and Thursday (30%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 25°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:45 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:27 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 10 hours 56 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
9Air quality
62%Humidity
17%Cloud
Now
7:00 AM
21feels13
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 16
5219
mostly clear day
Sat
Oct 17
5325
14mph
Sun
Oct 18
5124
mostly clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5324
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
4926
12%
Wed
Oct 21
4725
32%
Thu
Oct 22
4424
30%
21°
52°19°
53°25°
51°24°
53°24°
49°26°
47°25°
44°24°
As of 7:00 AM in Alder Pass, Montana.
Air quality
The air at Alder Pass
Index 9, good, led by fine particles. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Dillon (MT), 45 miles off.
9Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)9Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 13, good.
GoodModerate
- 13YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 42 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 12 AM: the index from smoke stays at 39 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Alder Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Alder Pass, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 12 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 8,543 ft
- County
- Beaverhead County
- State
- Montana
- Latitude
- 45.7449° N
- Longitude
- 113.1678° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Alder Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 11.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Big Hole Pass CTY-278 MP 32MTBHP
Beside a road/30.5 mi away/6,719 ft/1,824 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Anaconda3U3
At an airfield/31.7 mi away/5,003 ft/3,540 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
WisdomWISM8
At a cooperative observer's station/16.3 mi away/6,050 ft/2,493 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Polaris 2.7 NMT-BV-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/23.0 mi away/6,583 ft/1,960 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Montana
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Alder Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Wise Rivercommunity, 11 mi
- Deweycommunity, 15 mi
- Wisdomcommunity, 16 mi
- Maverick Mountaincommunity, 23 mi
- Anaconda-Deer Lodge Countytown, 28 mi
- Jacksoncommunity, 28 mi
- Glencommunity, 29 mi
- Argentacommunity, 35 mi
- Buttecity, 36 mi
- Discovery Ski Areaski area, 36 mi
- Walkervilletown, 36 mi
- Sulacommunity, 38 mi
Mountain passes near Alder Pass
- Granulated Pass14 mi
- Pintler Pass20 mi
- Cutaway Pass21 mi
- Warren Pass22 mi
- Storm Lake Pass22 mi
- Bitterroot Pass23 mi
- Deer Lodge Pass26 mi
- Big Hole Pass29 mi