Saddle Mtn. SnotelSDMM8
A snow pillow on a mountain/4.6 mi away/7,940 ft/995 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Montana/Gibbons Pass
Coming up. Tomorrow is 9 degrees warmer: a high of 68° after 59° today.
Now. Gibbons Pass is 35° and clear at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 31°. The dew point is 28°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east-southeast at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 30° by 3 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 70°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 58°. 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 sets at 9:34 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 59 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Gibbons Pass, Montana.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Hamilton (MT), 36 miles off.
Yesterday measured 29, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 8 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 4 instruments nearest Gibbons Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.2 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Saddle Mtn. SnotelSDMM8
A snow pillow on a mountain/4.6 mi away/7,940 ft/995 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
HamiltonHRF
At an airfield/36.5 mi away/3,605 ft/3,340 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
At a cooperative observer's station/4.2 mi away/7,077 ft/132 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Hamilton 10.2 SSWMT-RV-19
In a volunteer observer's own ground/29.4 mi away/4,094 ft/2,851 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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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.