East of Denton MT-81 MP 17MTDEN
Beside a road/28.7 mi away/3,599 ft/592 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mountain passes/Montana/Flat Creek Pass
Coming up. Tomorrow is 13 degrees warmer: a high of 67° after 54° today.
Now. Flat Creek Pass is 35° and mostly clear at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 29°. The dew point is 27°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the southeast at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 31° by 6 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 Saturday, near 72°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is Saturday, with wind to 20 mph. 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.
As of 11:00 PM in Flat Creek Pass, Montana.
Air quality
Index 28, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Lewistown (MT), 51 miles off.
Yesterday measured 35, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 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 Flat Creek Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 8.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
East of Denton MT-81 MP 17MTDEN
Beside a road/28.7 mi away/3,599 ft/592 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Teton River AT LomaLTRM8
At a river or reservoir gauge/30.4 mi away/2,569 ft/438 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Fort Benton79S
At an airfield/33.3 mi away/2,867 ft/140 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW6270GW6270
In a volunteer observer's own ground/34.4 mi away/2,627 ft/380 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Geraldine 12.0 EMT-CH-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.3 mi away/3,157 ft/150 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/31.5 mi away/2,569 ft/438 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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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.