Kraft Creek SnotelKRCM8
A snow pillow on a mountain/7.1 mi away/4,750 ft/2,264 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Montana/Elk Pass
Elk Pass, Montana
Mountain pass in Lake County, Montana, at 7,014 ft25°
53°/22°
Clear·
Feels like 16°·Gentle breeze 8 mph ESE
Now. Elk Pass is 25° and clear at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 16°. The dew point is 25°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the east-southeast at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 30° by 5 AM, 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 86): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 55°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 44°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 28°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:46 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:21 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 52 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
86Air quality
100%Humidity
10%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
25feels16
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5322
mostly clear day
Sat
Oct 17
5528
13mph
Sun
Oct 18
4625
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5125
partly cloudy day
Tue
Oct 20
4528
10%
Wed
Oct 21
4426
15%
Thu
Oct 22
4426
23%
25°
53°22°
55°28°
46°25°
51°25°
45°28°
44°26°
44°26°
As of 1:00 AM in Elk Pass, Montana.
Air quality
The air at Elk Pass
Index 86, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Seeley Lake (MT), 28 miles off.
86Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)86Moderate-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 54, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 54YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 42 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 28 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Elk Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 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 Pass, the next 42 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
- 7,014 ft
- County
- Lake County
- State
- Montana
- Latitude
- 47.4538° N
- Longitude
- 113.9220° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Elk Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Ronanairport7S0
At an airfield/11.5 mi away/3,079 ft/3,935 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Swan Lake South MT-83 MP 47MTSWN
Beside a road/12.3 mi away/3,550 ft/3,464 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station EW6663EW6663
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.8 mi away/2,929 ft/4,085 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Ronan 0.2 WSWMT-LK-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.9 mi away/3,053 ft/3,961 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Lindbergh LakeLNBM8
At a cooperative observer's station/10.3 mi away/4,345 ft/2,669 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Lindbergh Lake (LNBM8), 10.3 miles from here, read 7 Oct, 18:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Montana
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Elk Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Kicking Horsecommunity, 6 mi
- Ronancity, 10 mi
- Condoncommunity, 11 mi
- Charlocommunity, 12 mi
- St. Ignatiustown, 12 mi
- Pablocommunity, 14 mi
- Ravallicommunity, 16 mi
- Turtle Lakecommunity, 17 mi
- Polsoncity, 19 mi
- Old Agencycommunity, 19 mi
- Kerrcommunity, 20 mi
- Finley Pointcommunity, 21 mi
Mountain passes near Elk Pass
- Eagle Pass1 mi
- Mollman Pass2 mi
- Lone Tree Pass6 mi
- Goat Pass9 mi
- Vacation Pass10 mi
- Piper-Crow Pass10 mi
- Freeman Pass10 mi
- Pass of the Winds11 mi