Homestake PassMTHOM
Beside a road/0.7 mi away/6,342 ft/33 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mountain passes/Montana/Homestake Pass
Homestake Pass, Montana
Mountain pass in Jefferson County, Montana, at 6,375 ft27°
59°/24°
Clear·
Feels like 27°·Light air 3 mph S
Now. Homestake Pass is 27° and clear at 6 AM. The dew point is 24°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the south at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 61°, and the coolest Thursday, near 54°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:42 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:23 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 55 minutes long, 4 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
14Air quality
92%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
6:00 AM
27feels27
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5924
mostly clear day
Sat
Oct 17
6131
13mph
Sun
Oct 18
5830
mostly clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6031
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
5833
partly cloudy day
Wed
Oct 21
5531
27%
Thu
Oct 22
5431
23%
27°
59°24°
61°31°
58°30°
60°31°
58°33°
55°31°
54°31°
As of 6:00 AM in Homestake Pass, Montana.
Air quality
The air at Homestake Pass
Index 14, good, led by fine particles. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Helena (MT), 50 miles off.
14Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)14Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 25, good.
GoodModerate
- 25YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 43 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 12 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Homestake Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 5 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 Homestake Pass, the next 43 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
- 6,375 ft
- County
- Jefferson County
- State
- Montana
- Latitude
- 45.9222° N
- Longitude
- 112.4161° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Homestake Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/4.5 mi away/5,545 ft/830 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Basin Creek SnotelBSCM8
A snow pillow on a mountain/10.0 mi away/7,180 ft/805 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Butte 2.8 SEMT-SB-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.2 mi away/5,508 ft/867 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Butte - Montana TechMTTM8
At a cooperative observer's station/9.3 mi away/5,767 ft/608 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 Homestake Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Rader Creekcommunity, 7 mi
- Buttecity, 9 mi
- Walkervilletown, 9 mi
- Whitehalltown, 16 mi
- Silver Starcommunity, 17 mi
- Cardwellcommunity, 22 mi
- Deweycommunity, 23 mi
- Basincommunity, 25 mi
- Mammothcommunity, 26 mi
- Bouldercity, 26 mi
- Twin Bridgestown, 26 mi
- Wise Rivercommunity, 27 mi
Mountain passes near Homestake Pass
- Pipestone Pass5 mi
- Elk Park Pass8 mi
- Deer Lodge Pass13 mi
- Steels Pass18 mi
- Champion Pass23 mi
- Granulated Pass26 mi
- Low Pass27 mi
- Windy Pass27 mi