MacDonald Pass US-12 MP 27.9MTMDP
Beside a road/5.7 mi away/6,322 ft/394 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mountain passes/Montana/Mullan Pass
Now. Mullan Pass is 31° and clear at 6 AM. With the wind it feels like 24°. The dew point is 27°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the southwest at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 58° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° 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 63°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:41 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:18 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.
As of 6:00 AM in Mullan Pass, Montana.
Air quality
Index 14, good, led by fine particles. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Helena (MT), 14 miles off.
Yesterday measured 25, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 12 AM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 12 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Mullan Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
MacDonald Pass US-12 MP 27.9MTMDP
Beside a road/5.7 mi away/6,322 ft/394 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station FW7359FW7359
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.3 mi away/3,906 ft/2,022 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
A snow pillow on a mountain/15.6 mi away/6,480 ft/552 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/16.9 mi away/3,898 ft/2,030 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Helena Valley Northwest 11.6 WMT-LC-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.4 mi away/5,427 ft/501 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Tizer GardensTIZM8
At a cooperative observer's station/23.3 mi away/4,747 ft/1,181 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.