Thompson Falls RAWSTHAM8
A remote fire weather station/6.6 mi away/2,457 ft/2,154 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Montana/Joan Creek Pass
Joan Creek Pass, Montana
Mountain pass in Sanders County, Montana, at 4,611 ft34°
65°/28°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 34°·Light air 3 mph E
Now. Joan Creek Pass is 34° and mostly clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 33°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the east at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 64° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 5 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 52°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:52 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:27 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 52 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
26Air quality
75%Humidity
15%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
34feels34
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 16
6528
mostly clear day
Sat
Oct 17
6132
13mph
Sun
Oct 18
5529
mostly clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5829
partly cloudy day
Tue
Oct 20
5432
partly cloudy day
Wed
Oct 21
5429
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
5230
16%
34°
65°28°
61°32°
55°29°
58°29°
54°32°
54°29°
52°30°
As of 12:00 AM in Joan Creek Pass, Montana.
Air quality
The air at Joan Creek Pass
Index 26, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Thompson Falls (MT), 7 miles off.
26Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)26Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)10Good6.6 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 26, good.
GoodModerate
- 26YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 43 hours
Smoke near the ground peaks at index 55, moderate, Fri 8 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Joan Creek Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 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 Joan Creek Pass, the next 43 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
- 4,611 ft
- County
- Sanders County
- State
- Montana
- Latitude
- 47.4955° N
- Longitude
- 115.3479° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Joan Creek Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Beside a road/16.5 mi away/4,688 ft/77 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
PlainsS34
At an airfield/20.6 mi away/2,454 ft/2,157 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.6 mi away/2,906 ft/1,705 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Thompson Falls PhTHOM8
At a cooperative observer's station/6.8 mi away/2,405 ft/2,206 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Thompson Falls 0.4 SWMT-SN-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.9 mi away/2,509 ft/2,102 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Montana
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Near Joan Creek Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Thompson Fallscity, 7 mi
- Haugancommunity, 8 mi
- De Borgiacommunity, 9 mi
- Saltesecommunity, 10 mi
- Belknapcommunity, 11 mi
- Weeksvillecommunity, 16 mi
- St. Regiscommunity, 18 mi
- Plainstown, 22 mi
- Trout Creekcommunity, 26 mi
- Paradisecommunity, 27 mi
- Superiortown, 30 mi
- Hot Springstown, 32 mi
Mountain passes near Joan Creek Pass
- Knox Pass3 mi
- Daisy Creek Pass7 mi
- East Fork Pass7 mi
- East Fork Pass8 mi
- Cube Iron Pass13 mi
- Saint Regis Pass18 mi
- Vermilion Pass19 mi
- Rainbow Lake Pass27 mi