Badger Pass SnotelBADM8
A snow pillow on a mountain/6.5 mi away/6,900 ft/417 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Montana/Gateway Pass
Gateway Pass, Montana
Mountain pass in Flathead County, Montana, at 6,483 ft34°
45°/24°
Clear·
Feels like 28°·Light breeze 7 mph SW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 10 degrees warmer: a high of 55° after 45° today.
Now. Gateway Pass is 34° and clear at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 28°. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the southwest at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 32° by 10 PM, 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 55°, and the coolest Sunday, near 48°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is Saturday, with wind to 32 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
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 53 minutes long, 4 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
12Air quality
89%Humidity
11%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
34feels28
now, clear
Today
Oct 15
4524
clear day
Fri
Oct 16
5531
19mph
Sat
Oct 17
5541
32mph
Sun
Oct 18
4833
mostly clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5532
partly cloudy day
Tue
Oct 20
5037
partly cloudy day
Wed
Oct 21
4833
18%
34°
45°24°
55°31°
55°41°
48°33°
55°32°
50°37°
48°33°
As of 9:00 PM in Gateway Pass, Montana.
Air quality
The air at Gateway Pass
Index 12, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Choteau (MT), 38 miles off.
12Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)12Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 18, good.
GoodModerate
- 18YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 46 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 33 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Gateway Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 8 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 Gateway Pass, the next 46 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
- 6,483 ft
- County
- Flathead County
- State
- Montana
- Latitude
- 48.0533° N
- Longitude
- 112.9451° W
What is measuring near here
The 3 instruments nearest Gateway Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.5 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Beside a road/28.2 mi away/4,324 ft/2,159 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily1 instrument
East GlacierEGLM8
At a cooperative observer's station/30.1 mi away/4,833 ft/1,650 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 Gateway Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Heart Buttecommunity, 17 mi
- Rockport Colonycommunity, 22 mi
- Dupuyercommunity, 23 mi
- Birch Creek Colonycommunity, 26 mi
- Snowslipcommunity, 27 mi
- Kingsbury Colonycommunity, 27 mi
- Pondera Colonycommunity, 28 mi
- Bynumcommunity, 30 mi
- East Glacier Park Villagecommunity, 30 mi
- Pendroycommunity, 30 mi
- Miller Colonycommunity, 32 mi
- New Miami Colonycommunity, 32 mi
Mountain passes near Gateway Pass
- Teton Pass6 mi
- Badger Pass7 mi
- Sun River Pass7 mi
- Muskrat Pass9 mi
- Switchback Pass12 mi
- Route Creek Pass13 mi
- Headquarters Creek Pass17 mi
- Spotted Bear Pass23 mi