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A snow pillow on a mountain/8.4 mi away/6,050 ft/1,236 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Montana/Half Moon Pass
Half Moon Pass, Montana
Mountain pass in Fergus County, Montana, at 7,286 ft26°
55°/18°
Clear·
Feels like 15°·Moderate breeze 13 mph SSW
Now. Half Moon Pass is 26° and clear at 7 AM. With the wind it feels like 15°. The dew point is 21°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the south-southwest at 13 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° by 9 PM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 60°, and the coolest Sunday, near 49°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:29 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:05 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 54 minutes long, 4 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
30Air quality
70%Humidity
10%Cloud
Now
7:00 AM
26feels15
13mph
Today
Oct 16
5518
14mph
Sat
Oct 17
6034
13mph
Sun
Oct 18
4931
mostly clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5630
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
5633
partly cloudy day
Wed
Oct 21
5131
13%
Thu
Oct 22
5331
13%
26°
55°18°
60°34°
49°31°
56°30°
56°33°
51°31°
53°31°
As of 7:00 AM in Half Moon Pass, Montana.
Air quality
The air at Half Moon Pass
Index 30, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Lewistown (MT), 20 miles off.
30Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)19Good20 mi
- Ozone30Good31 ppb20 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)0Good20 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 32, good.
GoodModerate
- 32YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 42 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 12 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Half Moon Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 6 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 Half Moon Pass, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 12 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 7,286 ft
- County
- Fergus County
- State
- Montana
- Latitude
- 46.7664° N
- Longitude
- 109.3382° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Half Moon Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 8.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Lima1LM
At an airfield/19.3 mi away/4,602 ft/2,684 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Judith Gap US-191 MP 18.6MTJUD
Beside a road/20.3 mi away/4,675 ft/2,611 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
MoccasinS2119
At a soil climate station/35.3 mi away/4,256 ft/3,030 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Judith Gap 13 EJDHM8
At a cooperative observer's station/10.5 mi away/4,997 ft/2,289 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Lewistown 0.4 SWMT-FG-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.8 mi away/4,019 ft/3,267 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 Half Moon Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Judith Gapcity, 21 mi
- Lewistowncity, 21 mi
- Mooretown, 22 mi
- Lewistown Heightscommunity, 22 mi
- King Ranch Colonycommunity, 25 mi
- Ayers Ranch Colonycommunity, 27 mi
- Warm Spring Creekcommunity, 29 mi
- Springwater Colonycommunity, 29 mi
- Hobsoncity, 30 mi
- Spring Creek Colonycommunity, 30 mi
- Shawmutcommunity, 30 mi
- Brookscommunity, 31 mi
Mountain passes near Half Moon Pass
- Ross Pass34 mi
- Kings Hill Pass64 mi
- Flat Creek Pass71 mi
- Moose Pass76 mi
- Elk Horn Pass83 mi
- Klondike Pass91 mi
- Duck Creek Pass93 mi
- Meyers Creek Pass94 mi