Gate Park Raws Near Choteau 35WswGPKM8
A remote fire weather station/6.5 mi away/5,319 ft/2,422 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Montana/Headquarters Creek Pass
Alert. A High Wind Watch is in force for Headquarters Creek Pass until 12 AM Sunday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 11 degrees warmer: a high of 53° after 42° today.
Now. Headquarters Creek Pass is 26° and clear at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 20°. The dew point is 22°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the west-southwest at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight holds near 26°, 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 53°, and the coolest Sunday, near 45°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is Saturday, with wind to 27 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 23°.
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 54 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Headquarters Creek Pass, Montana.
Air quality
Index 3, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Choteau (MT), 29 miles off.
Yesterday measured 18, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 28 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 4 instruments nearest Headquarters Creek 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 now3 instruments
Gate Park Raws Near Choteau 35WswGPKM8
A remote fire weather station/6.5 mi away/5,319 ft/2,422 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beside a road/28.0 mi away/4,324 ft/3,417 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW6973GW6973
In a volunteer observer's own ground/33.8 mi away/3,761 ft/3,980 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily1 instrument
Gibson LakeGDMM8
At a cooperative observer's station/15.4 mi away/4,751 ft/2,990 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.