Wood Creek SnotelWODM8
A snow pillow on a mountain/4.0 mi away/5,960 ft/595 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Montana/Elbow Pass
Elbow Pass, Montana
Mountain pass in Lewis and Clark County, Montana, at 6,555 ft* WHAT...Westerly winds 30 to 50 mph with gusts up to 75 mph possible. * WHERE...East Glacier Park Region Zone, and Eastern Glacier, Western Toole, and Central Pondera, Northern High Plains, Southern High Plains, and Southern Rocky Mountain Front. * WHEN...From Saturday morning through Saturday evening. * IMPACTS...Travel could be difficult, especially for high profile vehicles. Isolated instances of tree damage and or power outages are possible. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The strong winds will also bring difficult conditions for outdoor recreation in portions Glacier National Park, particularly over and near higher terrain on the eastern side of the Park.
Monitor the latest forecasts and warnings for updates.
28°
46°/21°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 24°·Light breeze 4 mph WSW
Alert. A High Wind Watch is in force for Elbow Pass until 12 AM Sunday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees warmer: a high of 55° after 46° today.
Now. Elbow Pass is 28° and mostly clear at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 24°. The dew point is 25°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the west-southwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight holds near 27°, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 63): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Monday, near 56°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 49°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 27°.
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 55 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
63Air quality
88%Humidity
25%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
28feels24
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 15
4621
mostly clear day
Fri
Oct 16
5527
mostly clear day
Sat
Oct 17
5533
19mph
Sun
Oct 18
5027
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5629
partly cloudy day
Tue
Oct 20
5232
12%
Wed
Oct 21
4929
23%
28°
46°21°
55°27°
55°33°
50°27°
56°29°
52°32°
49°29°
As of 10:00 PM in Elbow Pass, Montana.
Air quality
The air at Elbow Pass
Index 63, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Seeley Lake (MT), 32 miles off.
63Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)63Moderate-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 54, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 54YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 45 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Elbow Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 9 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 Elbow Pass, the next 45 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
- 6,555 ft
- County
- Lewis and Clark County
- State
- Montana
- Latitude
- 47.4013° N
- Longitude
- 112.8656° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Elbow Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.0 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Beside a road/30.4 mi away/4,327 ft/2,228 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Golf1GM
At an airfield/36.2 mi away/4,333 ft/2,222 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Gibson LakeGDMM8
At a cooperative observer's station/14.7 mi away/4,751 ft/1,804 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Ovando 2.9 SWMT-PW-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/31.7 mi away/4,057 ft/2,498 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Montana
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Elbow Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Augustacommunity, 23 mi
- Gilmancommunity, 25 mi
- Ovandocommunity, 29 mi
- Milford Colonycommunity, 31 mi
- Lincolncommunity, 32 mi
- Seeley Lakecommunity, 32 mi
- Helmvillecommunity, 37 mi
- Condoncommunity, 40 mi
- Choteaucity, 43 mi
- Fairfieldtown, 44 mi
- Simmscommunity, 44 mi
- Miller Colonycommunity, 45 mi
Mountain passes near Elbow Pass
- Observation Pass3 mi
- Straight Creek Pass6 mi
- Welcome Pass8 mi
- Elk Pass12 mi
- Camp Creek Pass12 mi
- Limestone Pass15 mi
- Hahn Creek Pass17 mi
- Camp Pass17 mi