At a river or reservoir gauge/1.6 mi away/5,242 ft/1,465 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Montana/Milwaukee Pass
Now. Milwaukee Pass is 31° and mostly clear at 9 PM. The dew point is 24°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the east-northeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 21° by 5 AM, 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 54°, and the coolest Tuesday, near 44°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 20°.
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 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 53 minutes long, 4 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Milwaukee Pass, Montana.
Air quality
Index 36, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Libby (MT), 23 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 8 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 Milwaukee Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.6 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.6 mi away/5,242 ft/1,465 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Crystal Creek US-2 MP 53.1MTCRY
Beside a road/12.5 mi away/3,038 ft/3,669 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Noxon 4.2 WNWMT-SN-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.2 mi away/2,313 ft/4,394 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Trout Creek RsTCRM8
At a cooperative observer's station/14.5 mi away/2,444 ft/4,263 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Trout Creek Rs (TCRM8), 14.5 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.