A snow pillow on a mountain/0.3 mi away/7,250 ft/15 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Montana/Skalkaho Pass
Now. Skalkaho Pass is 30° and clear at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 25°. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east-southeast at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° by 8 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 58°, and the coolest Thursday, near 45°. Rain is possible Thursday (31%). The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:47 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:27 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.
As of 1:00 AM in Skalkaho Pass, Montana.
Air quality
Index 32, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Hamilton (MT), 19 miles off.
Yesterday measured 29, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. 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 5 instruments nearest Skalkaho Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
A snow pillow on a mountain/0.3 mi away/7,250 ft/15 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
HamiltonHRF
At an airfield/16.8 mi away/3,605 ft/3,660 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Georgetown LakeMTGTL
Beside a road/22.9 mi away/6,522 ft/743 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Hamilton 3.7 SEMT-RV-16
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.9 mi away/3,918 ft/3,347 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Philipsburg RsPHIM8
At a cooperative observer's station/23.1 mi away/5,240 ft/2,025 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.