At a river or reservoir gauge/6.1 mi away/5,242 ft/617 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Montana/Lost Buck Pass
Now. Lost Buck Pass is 32° and mostly clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 26°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the east at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 23° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 61): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 58°, and the coolest Tuesday, near 48°. The days ahead look dry. 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, 4 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Lost Buck Pass, Montana.
Air quality
Index 61, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Libby (MT), 26 miles off.
Yesterday measured 47, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 39 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 Lost Buck Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.1 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.1 mi away/5,242 ft/617 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Crystal Creek US-2 MP 53.1MTCRY
Beside a road/9.7 mi away/3,038 ft/2,821 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Trout Creek 4.0 NNWMT-SN-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.4 mi away/2,566 ft/3,293 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Trout Creek RsTCRM8
At a cooperative observer's station/10.7 mi away/2,444 ft/3,415 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Trout Creek Rs (TCRM8), 10.7 miles from here, read 9 Oct, 14:00. measured daily
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.