A snow pillow on a mountain/1.4 mi away/5,650 ft/913 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Montana/Nez Perce Pass
Now. Nez Perce Pass is 38° and clear at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 33°. The dew point is 26°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the southeast at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 34° by 2 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 Wednesday, near 49°. Rain is possible Wednesday (31%). Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and sets at 9:36 PM. 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 59 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Nez Perce Pass, Montana.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Hamilton (MT), 40 miles off.
Yesterday measured 29, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 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 3 instruments nearest Nez Perce Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.4 miles away.
measured now1 instrument
A snow pillow on a mountain/1.4 mi away/5,650 ft/913 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
At a cooperative observer's station/26.4 mi away/7,077 ft/514 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Hamilton 10.2 SSWMT-RV-19
In a volunteer observer's own ground/30.3 mi away/4,094 ft/2,469 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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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.