MacDonald Pass US-12 MP 27.9MTMDP
Beside a road/4.0 mi away/6,322 ft/313 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mountain passes/Montana/Priest Pass
Priest Pass, Montana
Mountain pass in Lewis and Clark County, Montana, at 6,009 ft31°
48°/25°
Clear·
Feels like 26°·Light breeze 5 mph SW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 9 degrees warmer: a high of 57° after 48° today.
Now. Priest Pass is 31° and clear at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 26°. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the southwest at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 28° by 7 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 Saturday, near 60°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 50°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 28°.
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 south-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 57 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
31Air quality
79%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
31feels26
now, clear
Today
Oct 15
4825
mostly clear day
Fri
Oct 16
5728
13mph
Sat
Oct 17
6034
15mph
Sun
Oct 18
5433
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5733
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
5435
10%
Wed
Oct 21
5033
28%
31°
48°25°
57°28°
60°34°
54°33°
57°33°
54°35°
50°33°
As of 11:00 PM in Priest Pass, Montana.
Air quality
The air at Priest Pass
Index 31, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Helena (MT), 13 miles off.
31Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)31Good13.9 mi
- Ozone-22 ppb21.7 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 34, good.
GoodModerate
- 34YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 44 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Priest Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. 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 Priest Pass, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 6,009 ft
- County
- Lewis and Clark County
- State
- Montana
- Latitude
- 46.6194° N
- Longitude
- 112.2986° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Priest Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station FW7359FW7359
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.3 mi away/3,906 ft/2,103 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
A snow pillow on a mountain/13.7 mi away/6,480 ft/471 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/15.9 mi away/3,898 ft/2,111 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/9.1 mi away/5,427 ft/582 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Tizer GardensTIZM8
At a cooperative observer's station/21.5 mi away/4,747 ft/1,262 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Montana
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Near Priest Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Ellistoncommunity, 7 mi
- Marysvillecommunity, 9 mi
- Riminicommunity, 9 mi
- Great Divideski area, 9 mi
- Helena West Sidecommunity, 10 mi
- Unionvillecommunity, 12 mi
- Helenacity, 13 mi
- Helena Valley West Centralcommunity, 13 mi
- Canyon Creekcommunity, 13 mi
- Helena Valley Northwestcommunity, 15 mi
- Avoncommunity, 15 mi
- South Hillscommunity, 16 mi
Mountain passes near Priest Pass
- Mullan Pass2 mi
- MacDonald Pass4 mi
- Stemple Pass21 mi
- Flesher Pass25 mi
- Champion Pass30 mi
- Radersburg Pass31 mi
- Rogers Pass32 mi
- Cadotte Pass33 mi