Poorman Creek SnotelPMNM8
A snow pillow on a mountain/6.8 mi away/5,100 ft/1,423 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Montana/Snake Creek Pass
Snake Creek Pass, Montana
Mountain pass in Sanders County, Montana, at 3,677 ft63°
66°/31°
Clear·
Feels like 63°·Light air 2 mph ESE
Now. Snake Creek Pass is 63° and clear at 4 PM. The dew point is 32°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the east-southeast at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 36° by 8 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. Highs stay close to 58° all week. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:53 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:25 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.
2UV Low
22Air quality
31%Humidity
7%Cloud
Now
4:00 PM
63feels63
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
6631
mostly clear day
Sat
Oct 17
5936
partly cloudy day
Sun
Oct 18
5730
mostly clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5933
partly cloudy day
Tue
Oct 20
5835
mostly clear day
Wed
Oct 21
5932
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
5634
10%
63°
66°31°
59°36°
57°30°
59°33°
58°35°
59°32°
56°34°
As of 4:00 PM in Snake Creek Pass, Montana.
Air quality
The air at Snake Creek Pass
Index 22, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 PM from its reporting area, Libby (MT), 19 miles off.
22Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)22Good19.2 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)2Good19.2 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 61, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 61YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 45 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 12 PM: the index from smoke stays at 50 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Snake Creek Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 3 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 Snake Creek Pass, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 12 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 3,677 ft
- County
- Sanders County
- State
- Montana
- Latitude
- 48.1538° N
- Longitude
- 115.7643° W
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest Snake Creek Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.8 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Beside a road/7.9 mi away/2,339 ft/1,338 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Noxon 4.2 WNWMT-SN-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.2 mi away/2,313 ft/1,364 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Heron 2NWHERM8
At a cooperative observer's station/12.1 mi away/2,247 ft/1,430 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Heron 2NW (HERM8), 12.1 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 18:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Montana
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Snake Creek Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Bull Lakecommunity, 8 mi
- Noxoncommunity, 11 mi
- Heroncommunity, 12 mi
- Pioneer Junctioncommunity, 17 mi
- White Havencommunity, 18 mi
- Libbycity, 19 mi
- Troycity, 22 mi
- Trout Creekcommunity, 24 mi
- Happys Inncommunity, 30 mi
- Sylvanitecommunity, 38 mi
- Belknapcommunity, 38 mi
- Thompson Fallscity, 43 mi
Mountain passes near Snake Creek Pass
- Milwaukee Pass7 mi
- Saint Paul Pass8 mi
- Carney Pass13 mi
- Lost Buck Pass13 mi
- Silver Butte Pass21 mi
- Minton Creek Pass23 mi
- Himes Pass25 mi
- Willow Creek Pass29 mi