Basin Creek SnotelBSCM8
A snow pillow on a mountain/9.4 mi away/7,180 ft/1,252 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Montana/Deer Lodge Pass
Now. Deer Lodge Pass is 31° and clear at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 24°. The dew point is 27°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the south at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 58° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 62°, and the coolest Thursday, near 54°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:43 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:24 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 55 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Deer Lodge Pass, Montana.
Air quality
Index 2, good, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Dillon (MT), 47 miles off.
Yesterday measured 13, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 12 AM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 12 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Deer Lodge Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 9.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Basin Creek SnotelBSCM8
A snow pillow on a mountain/9.4 mi away/7,180 ft/1,252 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/9.7 mi away/5,545 ft/383 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Homestake PassMTHOM
Beside a road/13.2 mi away/6,342 ft/414 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Butte - Montana TechMTTM8
At a cooperative observer's station/10.5 mi away/5,767 ft/161 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Walkerville 1.8 SSWMT-SB-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.6 mi away/5,681 ft/247 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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Snow on the ground
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.