Wood Creek SnotelWODM8
A snow pillow on a mountain/11.6 mi away/5,960 ft/34 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Montana/Elk Pass
Elk Pass, Montana
Mountain pass in Lewis and Clark County, Montana, at 5,994 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.
30°
48°/24°
Clear·
Feels like 26°·Light breeze 4 mph WSW
Alert. A High Wind Watch is in force for Elk 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 57° after 48° today.
Now. Elk Pass is 30° and clear at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 26°. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the west-southwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight holds near 30°, 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 Monday, near 58°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 51°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
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 south-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, 4 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
3Air quality
77%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
30feels26
now, clear
Today
Oct 15
4824
clear day
Fri
Oct 16
5729
mostly clear day
Sat
Oct 17
5735
17mph
Sun
Oct 18
5231
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5831
partly cloudy day
Tue
Oct 20
5435
11%
Wed
Oct 21
5132
24%
30°
48°24°
57°29°
57°35°
52°31°
58°31°
54°35°
51°32°
As of 11:00 PM in Elk Pass, Montana.
Air quality
The air at Elk Pass
Index 3, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Choteau (MT), 40 miles off.
3Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)3Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 18, good.
GoodModerate
- 18YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 44 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Elk Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 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 Elk Pass, the next 44 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
- 5,994 ft
- County
- Lewis and Clark County
- State
- Montana
- Latitude
- 47.3291° N
- Longitude
- 112.6386° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Elk Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 11.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Roger's PassMTROG
Beside a road/20.8 mi away/5,390 ft/604 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Golf1GM
At an airfield/25.2 mi away/4,333 ft/1,661 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
AugustaAUGM8
At a cooperative observer's station/16.0 mi away/4,081 ft/1,913 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Lincoln 0.2 SEMT-LC-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/26.1 mi away/4,552 ft/1,442 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 Elk Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Augustacommunity, 16 mi
- Gilmancommunity, 18 mi
- Milford Colonycommunity, 20 mi
- Lincolncommunity, 26 mi
- Ovandocommunity, 31 mi
- Wolf Creekcommunity, 35 mi
- Simmscommunity, 35 mi
- Helmvillecommunity, 36 mi
- Craigcommunity, 36 mi
- Fairfieldtown, 37 mi
- Cascade Colonycommunity, 39 mi
- Choteaucity, 39 mi
Mountain passes near Elk Pass
- Welcome Pass4 mi
- Straight Creek Pass6 mi
- Elbow Pass12 mi
- Observation Pass14 mi
- Lewis and Clark Pass16 mi
- Windy Pass19 mi
- Echo Pass19 mi
- Cadotte Pass20 mi