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temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Montana/Chief Joseph Pass
Chief Joseph Pass, Montana
Mountain pass in Beaverhead County, Montana, at 7,251 ft35°
60°/30°
Clear·
Feels like 31°·Light breeze 4 mph E
Coming up. Tomorrow is 11 degrees warmer: a high of 71° after 60° today.
Now. Chief Joseph Pass is 35° and clear at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 31°. The dew point is 27°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 30° by 3 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 Saturday, near 74°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 62°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is Saturday, with wind to 23 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 59 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
41Air quality
78%Humidity
8%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
35feels31
now, clear
Today
Oct 15
6030
mostly clear day
Fri
Oct 16
7130
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
7438
23mph
Sun
Oct 18
6338
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
7034
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6838
partly cloudy day
Wed
Oct 21
6238
23%
35°
60°30°
71°30°
74°38°
63°38°
70°34°
68°38°
62°38°
As of 11:00 PM in Chief Joseph Pass, Montana.
Air quality
The air at Chief Joseph Pass
Index 41, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Salmon (ID), 34 miles off.
41Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)41Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 28, good.
GoodModerate
- 28YesterdayOct 14
- 27TodayOct 15
- 24FriOct 16
- 29SatOct 17
- 33SunOct 18
- 30MonOct 19
Smoke, the next 44 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Chief Joseph Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. 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 Chief Joseph Pass, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 7,251 ft
- County
- Beaverhead County
- State
- Montana
- Latitude
- 45.6846° N
- Longitude
- 113.9331° W
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest Chief Joseph Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.2 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Big Hole Pass CTY-278 MP 32MTBHP
Beside a road/39.5 mi away/6,719 ft/532 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
At a cooperative observer's station/1.2 mi away/7,077 ft/174 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Hamilton 10.2 SSWMT-RV-19
In a volunteer observer's own ground/32.8 mi away/4,094 ft/3,157 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 Chief Joseph Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Sulacommunity, 9 mi
- Connercommunity, 19 mi
- Wisdomcommunity, 24 mi
- Darbytown, 26 mi
- Charlos Heightscommunity, 33 mi
- Jacksoncommunity, 33 mi
- Hamiltoncity, 41 mi
- Maverick Mountaincommunity, 44 mi
- Corvalliscommunity, 44 mi
- Pinesdaletown, 47 mi
- Wise Rivercommunity, 48 mi
- Victorcommunity, 52 mi
Mountain passes near Chief Joseph Pass
- Gibbons Pass4 mi
- Horse Creek Pass26 mi
- Bitterroot Pass26 mi
- Nezperce Pass27 mi
- Nez Perce Pass28 mi
- Pintler Pass28 mi
- Warren Pass31 mi
- Cutaway Pass35 mi