At an airfield/5.9 mi away/5,545 ft/806 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Mountain passes/Montana/Elk Park Pass
Elk Park Pass, Montana
Mountain pass in Silver Bow County, Montana, at 6,351 ft34°
60°/25°
Clear·
Feels like 34°·Light air 2 mph SSW
Now. Elk Park Pass is 34° and clear at 10 AM. The dew point is 29°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the south-southwest at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 7 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 60°, and the coolest Thursday, near 52°. Rain is possible Thursday (36%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:42 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:22 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.
1UV Low
37Air quality
86%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
10:00 AM
34feels34
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
6025
mostly clear day
Sat
Oct 17
6031
13mph
Sun
Oct 18
5630
mostly clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5931
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
5633
partly cloudy day
Wed
Oct 21
5332
21%
Thu
Oct 22
5232
36%
34°
60°25°
60°31°
56°30°
59°31°
56°33°
53°32°
52°32°
As of 10:00 AM in Elk Park Pass, Montana.
Air quality
The air at Elk Park Pass
Index 37, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 AM from its reporting area, Helena (MT), 44 miles off.
37Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)37Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 25, good.
GoodModerate
- 25YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 45 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 6 AM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Elk Park Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 9 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 Elk Park Pass, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 6,351 ft
- County
- Silver Bow County
- State
- Montana
- Latitude
- 46.0363° N
- Longitude
- 112.4592° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Elk Park Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Elk ParkMTELK
Beside a road/7.5 mi away/6,273 ft/78 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Basin Creek SnotelBSCM8
A snow pillow on a mountain/16.8 mi away/7,180 ft/829 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Butte 2.8 SEMT-SB-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.5 mi away/5,508 ft/843 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Butte - Montana TechMTTM8
At a cooperative observer's station/5.0 mi away/5,767 ft/584 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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 Elk Park Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Walkervilletown, 4 mi
- Buttecity, 4 mi
- Rader Creekcommunity, 15 mi
- Basincommunity, 19 mi
- Whitehalltown, 21 mi
- Bouldercity, 21 mi
- Racetrackcommunity, 22 mi
- Anaconda-Deer Lodge Countytown, 25 mi
- Silver Starcommunity, 25 mi
- Deweycommunity, 26 mi
- Cardwellcommunity, 27 mi
- Deer Lodgecity, 28 mi
Mountain passes near Elk Park Pass
- Homestake Pass8 mi
- Pipestone Pass12 mi
- Deer Lodge Pass15 mi
- Champion Pass15 mi
- Steels Pass26 mi
- Granulated Pass26 mi
- Radersburg Pass31 mi
- Windy Pass34 mi