A snow pillow on a mountain/3.1 mi away/6,400 ft/861 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Montana/Route Creek Pass
Route Creek Pass, Montana
Mountain pass in Teton County, Montana, at 7,261 ft* WHAT...Westerly winds 30 to 50 mph with gusts up to 75 mph possible. * WHERE...East Glacier Park Region Zone, and Eastern Glacier, Western Toole, and Central Pondera, Northern High Plains, Southern High Plains, and Southern Rocky Mountain Front. * WHEN...From Saturday morning through Saturday evening. * IMPACTS...Travel could be difficult, especially for high profile vehicles. Isolated instances of tree damage and or power outages are possible. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The strong winds will also bring difficult conditions for outdoor recreation in portions Glacier National Park, particularly over and near higher terrain on the eastern side of the Park.
Monitor the latest forecasts and warnings for updates.
28°
53°/27°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 21°·Light breeze 7 mph WSW
Alert. A High Wind Watch is in force for Route Creek Pass until 12 AM Sunday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Route Creek Pass is 28° and mostly clear at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 21°. The dew point is 19°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the west-southwest at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 53° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 38° by 10 PM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 53°, and the coolest Sunday, near 45°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 32 mph. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 28°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:41 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:14 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 50 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
11Air quality
69%Humidity
31%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
28feels21
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 16
5327
17mph
Sat
Oct 17
5333
32mph
Sun
Oct 18
4528
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5228
partly cloudy day
Tue
Oct 20
4732
10%
Wed
Oct 21
4528
21%
Thu
Oct 22
4529
11%
28°
53°27°
53°33°
45°28°
52°28°
47°32°
45°28°
45°29°
As of 1:00 AM in Route Creek Pass, Montana.
Air quality
The air at Route Creek Pass
Index 11, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Choteau (MT), 30 miles off.
11Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)11Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 18, good.
GoodModerate
- 18YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 42 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 33 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Route Creek Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. 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 Route Creek Pass, the next 42 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
- 7,261 ft
- County
- Teton County
- State
- Montana
- Latitude
- 47.8733° N
- Longitude
- 112.8323° W
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest Route Creek Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Beside a road/26.9 mi away/4,324 ft/2,937 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW6973GW6973
In a volunteer observer's own ground/35.0 mi away/3,761 ft/3,500 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily1 instrument
Gibson LakeGDMM8
At a cooperative observer's station/19.1 mi away/4,751 ft/2,510 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Montana
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Route Creek Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Rockport Colonycommunity, 21 mi
- Bynumcommunity, 25 mi
- Miller Colonycommunity, 25 mi
- Dupuyercommunity, 27 mi
- Pendroycommunity, 28 mi
- Heart Buttecommunity, 28 mi
- Choteaucity, 30 mi
- Birch Creek Colonycommunity, 31 mi
- Pondera Colonycommunity, 32 mi
- Gilmancommunity, 33 mi
- Augustacommunity, 33 mi
- New Miami Colonycommunity, 34 mi
Mountain passes near Route Creek Pass
- Headquarters Creek Pass4 mi
- Teton Pass8 mi
- Sun River Pass9 mi
- Switchback Pass13 mi
- Gateway Pass13 mi
- Spotted Bear Pass16 mi
- Larch Hill Pass18 mi
- Badger Pass20 mi