Sacajawea SnotelSAJM8
A snow pillow on a mountain/2.0 mi away/6,550 ft/1,016 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Montana/Ross Pass
Ross Pass, Montana
Mountain pass in Gallatin County, Montana, at 7,566 ft23°
51°/22°
Clear·
Feels like 17°·Light breeze 4 mph SSW
Now. Ross Pass is 23° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 17°. The dew point is 23°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the south-southwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 6 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 Thursday, near 46°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:36 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:17 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 55 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
31Air quality
95%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
23feels17
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5122
mostly clear day
Sat
Oct 17
5429
13mph
Sun
Oct 18
4928
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5427
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
5130
12%
Wed
Oct 21
4730
29%
Thu
Oct 22
4629
29%
23°
51°22°
54°29°
49°28°
54°27°
51°30°
47°30°
46°29°
As of 12:00 AM in Ross Pass, Montana.
Air quality
The air at Ross Pass
Index 31, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Helena (MT), 73 miles off.
31Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)31Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 34, good.
GoodModerate
- 34YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Ross Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 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 Ross Pass, the next 43 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
- 7,566 ft
- County
- Gallatin County
- State
- Montana
- Latitude
- 45.8508° N
- Longitude
- 110.9511° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Ross Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.0 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Bridger Canyon MT-86 MP 16.7MTBDC
Beside a road/3.6 mi away/6,083 ft/1,483 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station FW1642FW1642
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.7 mi away/4,493 ft/3,073 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/11.0 mi away/4,475 ft/3,091 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Table MountainS0808
At a soil climate station/30.8 mi away/4,474 ft/3,092 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Bozeman 2.1 NNEMT-GN-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.7 mi away/4,731 ft/2,835 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Bozeman Montana State UnivBZEM8
At a cooperative observer's station/13.8 mi away/4,934 ft/2,632 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
2in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Bozeman Montana State Univ (BZEM8), 13.8 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 16:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Montana
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Big Skysurveyed ski areaBillingscityBozemancityBridger Bowlsurveyed ski areaButtecityCooke CitytownDiscovery Ski Areaski areaFlathead LakefeatureGlacier National ParkfeatureGranite PeakfeatureGreat Divideski areaGreat FallscityHavrecityHelenacityKalispellcityMissoulacityMontana Snowbowlski areaRed Lodge Mountainski areaWest YellowstonetownWhitefish Mountainsurveyed ski area
Near Ross Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Bridger Bowlsurveyed ski area, 3 mi
- Bridgercommunity, 4 mi
- Springhillcommunity, 6 mi
- Sedancommunity, 11 mi
- Belgradecity, 12 mi
- Bozemancity, 13 mi
- King Arthur Parkcommunity, 15 mi
- Four Cornerscommunity, 17 mi
- Clyde Parktown, 17 mi
- Wilsallcommunity, 17 mi
- Manhattantown, 18 mi
- Churchillcommunity, 18 mi
Mountain passes near Ross Pass
- Battle Ridge Pass4 mi
- Flathead Pass10 mi
- Bozeman Pass14 mi
- Klondike Pass31 mi
- McCormack Pass33 mi
- Windy Pass41 mi
- Mill Creek Pass42 mi
- Silver Pass45 mi