MacDonald Pass US-12 MP 27.9MTMDP
Beside a road/0.0 mi away/6,322 ft/6 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mountain passes/Montana/MacDonald Pass
MacDonald Pass, Montana
Mountain pass in Lewis and Clark County, Montana, at 6,316 ft31°
59°/28°
Clear·
Feels like 23°·Gentle breeze 9 mph SW
Now. MacDonald Pass is 31° and clear at 7 AM. With the wind it feels like 23°. The dew point is 26°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the southwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 38° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 61°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 53°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:41 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:19 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
16Air quality
92%Humidity
7%Cloud
Now
7:00 AM
31feels23
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5928
15mph
Sat
Oct 17
6137
16mph
Sun
Oct 18
5634
mostly clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5934
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
5637
partly cloudy day
Wed
Oct 21
5335
25%
Thu
Oct 22
5335
20%
31°
59°28°
61°37°
56°34°
59°34°
56°37°
53°35°
53°35°
As of 7:00 AM in MacDonald Pass, Montana.
Air quality
The air at MacDonald Pass
Index 16, good, led by fine particles. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Helena (MT), 14 miles off.
16Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)16Good15.7 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 25, good.
GoodModerate
- 25YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 42 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 12 AM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at MacDonald 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 MacDonald 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
- 6,316 ft
- County
- Lewis and Clark County
- State
- Montana
- Latitude
- 46.5613° N
- Longitude
- 112.3086° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest MacDonald Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
A snow pillow on a mountain/10.3 mi away/6,480 ft/164 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW7359FW7359
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.3 mi away/3,906 ft/2,410 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/16.7 mi away/3,898 ft/2,418 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Helena 5.5 SWMT-LC-16
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.0 mi away/5,035 ft/1,281 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Tizer GardensTIZM8
At a cooperative observer's station/18.8 mi away/4,747 ft/1,569 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 MacDonald Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Riminicommunity, 6 mi
- Ellistoncommunity, 6 mi
- Helena West Sidecommunity, 11 mi
- Unionvillecommunity, 11 mi
- Marysvillecommunity, 13 mi
- Helenacity, 13 mi
- Great Divideski area, 13 mi
- Avoncommunity, 15 mi
- Helena Valley West Centralcommunity, 15 mi
- South Hillscommunity, 16 mi
- Clancycommunity, 16 mi
- Jefferson Citycommunity, 17 mi
Mountain passes near MacDonald Pass
- Priest Pass4 mi
- Mullan Pass6 mi
- Stemple Pass25 mi
- Champion Pass26 mi
- Radersburg Pass28 mi
- Flesher Pass29 mi
- Rogers Pass36 mi
- Elk Park Pass37 mi