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A snow pillow on a mountain/9.9 mi away/7,180 ft/239 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Montana/Steels Pass
Steels Pass, Montana
Mountain pass in Madison County, Montana, at 7,419 ft45°
53°/26°
Clear·
Feels like 40°·Light breeze 8 mph SW
Now. Steels Pass is 45° and clear at 12 PM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 33°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the southwest at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° 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 tomorrow, near 52°, and the coolest Thursday, near 46°. Rain is possible Thursday (37%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:43 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:24 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 57 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
4UV Moderate
19Air quality
54%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
12:00 PM
45feels40
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5326
17mph
Sat
Oct 17
5231
19mph
Sun
Oct 18
5029
mostly clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5232
12mph
Tue
Oct 20
5033
partly cloudy day
Wed
Oct 21
4732
23%
Thu
Oct 22
4633
37%
45°
53°26°
52°31°
50°29°
52°32°
50°33°
47°32°
46°33°
As of 12:00 PM in Steels Pass, Montana.
Air quality
The air at Steels Pass
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 PM from its reporting area, Dillon (MT), 33 miles off.
19Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)19Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 13, good.
GoodModerate
- 13YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 43 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 6 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Steels Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 11 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 Steels Pass, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 7,419 ft
- County
- Madison County
- State
- Montana
- Latitude
- 45.6608° N
- Longitude
- 112.4614° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Steels Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 9.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Twin BridgesRVF
At an airfield/11.6 mi away/4,756 ft/2,663 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Homestake PassMTHOM
Beside a road/18.1 mi away/6,342 ft/1,077 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Dillon 19.5 NMT-BV-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.3 mi away/5,014 ft/2,405 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Butte - Montana TechMTTM8
At a cooperative observer's station/24.8 mi away/5,767 ft/1,652 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 Steels Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Silver Starcommunity, 9 mi
- Twin Bridgestown, 10 mi
- Rader Creekcommunity, 15 mi
- Glencommunity, 17 mi
- Sheridantown, 19 mi
- Deweycommunity, 20 mi
- Brandoncommunity, 21 mi
- Mammothcommunity, 21 mi
- Whitehalltown, 23 mi
- Buttecity, 25 mi
- Wise Rivercommunity, 25 mi
- Walkervilletown, 26 mi
Mountain passes near Steels Pass
- Pipestone Pass14 mi
- Low Pass17 mi
- Homestake Pass18 mi
- Deer Lodge Pass18 mi
- Tom Graham Pass19 mi
- Mustard Pass20 mi
- Windy Pass24 mi
- Elk Park Pass26 mi