Many Glacier SnotelMANM8
A snow pillow on a mountain/4.5 mi away/4,900 ft/2,300 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Montana/Swiftcurrent Pass
Swiftcurrent Pass, Montana
Mountain pass in Glacier County, Montana, at 7,200 ft29°
44°/27°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 22°·Light breeze 7 mph SW
Now. Swiftcurrent Pass is 29° and mostly clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 22°. The dew point is 21°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the southwest at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 43° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 3 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. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 46°, and the coolest Sunday, near 40°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:44 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:13 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 48 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
6Air quality
72%Humidity
32%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
29feels22
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 16
4427
13mph
Sat
Oct 17
4630
12%
21mph
Sun
Oct 18
4024
mostly clear day
Mon
Oct 19
4625
partly cloudy day
Tue
Oct 20
4329
partly cloudy day
Wed
Oct 21
4225
11%
Thu
Oct 22
4026
15%
29°
44°27°
46°30°
40°24°
46°25°
43°29°
42°25°
40°26°
As of 12:00 AM in Swiftcurrent Pass, Montana.
Air quality
The air at Swiftcurrent Pass
Index 6, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Glacier National Park (MT), 21 miles off.
6Good
- Ozone6Good3 ppb21.5 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 16, good.
GoodModerate
- 16YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 43 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 33 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Swiftcurrent 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 Swiftcurrent 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
- 7,200 ft
- County
- Glacier County
- State
- Montana
- Latitude
- 48.7783° N
- Longitude
- 113.7643° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Swiftcurrent Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.5 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
St. Mary 1 SSW04130
At a climate reference station/15.5 mi away/4,555 ft/2,645 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
West Glacier US-2 MP 153.4MTWGL
Beside a road/22.0 mi away/3,241 ft/3,959 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW7685GW7685
In a volunteer observer's own ground/39.4 mi away/3,069 ft/4,131 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
KalispellGPI
At an airfield/39.9 mi away/2,979 ft/4,221 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
St. MaryMRYM8
At a cooperative observer's station/15.3 mi away/4,551 ft/2,649 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Whitefish 2.2 NEMT-FH-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/34.3 mi away/3,590 ft/3,610 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
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 Swiftcurrent Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Glacier National Parkfeature, 11 mi
- St. Marycommunity, 16 mi
- Babbcommunity, 16 mi
- West Glaciercommunity, 22 mi
- Polebridgecommunity, 24 mi
- Coramcommunity, 27 mi
- Martin Citycommunity, 29 mi
- Pinnaclecommunity, 30 mi
- Hungry Horsecommunity, 30 mi
- Starr Schoolcommunity, 31 mi
- Whitefish Mountainsurveyed ski area, 34 mi
- East Glacier Park Villagecommunity, 34 mi
Mountain passes near Swiftcurrent Pass
- Ahern Pass3 mi
- Piegan Pass5 mi
- Logan Pass6 mi
- Hidden Lake Pass6 mi
- Redgap Pass7 mi
- Siyeh Pass7 mi
- Kootenai Pass8 mi
- Stoney Indian Pass8 mi