Beside a road/8.4 mi away/4,688 ft/868 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mountain passes/Montana/East Fork Pass
Now. East Fork Pass is 40° and clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the east-southeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 35° by 3 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 61°, and the coolest Tuesday, near 48°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 32°.
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 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 54 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in East Fork Pass, Montana.
Air quality
Index 42, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Thompson Falls (MT), 12 miles off.
Yesterday measured 26, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 44 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest East Fork Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 8.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Beside a road/8.4 mi away/4,688 ft/868 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Haugan 1WHAUM8
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.5 mi away/3,199 ft/2,357 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
PlainsS34
At an airfield/28.8 mi away/2,454 ft/3,102 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/29.8 mi away/2,906 ft/2,650 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Haugan 1 WHAUM8
At a cooperative observer's station/8.5 mi away/3,182 ft/2,374 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Thompson Falls 0.4 SWMT-SN-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.3 mi away/2,509 ft/3,047 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.