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A remote fire weather station/11.2 mi away/5,319 ft/2,475 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Montana/Switchback Pass
Switchback Pass, Montana
Mountain pass in Flathead County, Montana, at 7,794 ft27°
44°/18°
Clear·
Feels like 20°·Light breeze 6 mph SW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 52° after 44° today.
Now. Switchback Pass is 27° and clear at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 20°. The dew point is 22°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the southwest at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight holds near 27°, 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 Sunday, near 45°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is Saturday, with wind to 25 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 25°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 54 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
3Air quality
81%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
27feels20
now, clear
Today
Oct 15
4418
clear day
Fri
Oct 16
5225
14mph
Sat
Oct 17
5232
25mph
Sun
Oct 18
4527
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5227
partly cloudy day
Tue
Oct 20
4731
10%
Wed
Oct 21
4527
20%
27°
44°18°
52°25°
52°32°
45°27°
52°27°
47°31°
45°27°
As of 11:00 PM in Switchback Pass, Montana.
Air quality
The air at Switchback Pass
Index 3, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Choteau (MT), 42 miles off.
3Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)3Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 18, good.
GoodModerate
- 18YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 44 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 39 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Switchback Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 9 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 Switchback Pass, the next 44 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
- 7,794 ft
- County
- Flathead County
- State
- Montana
- Latitude
- 47.9111° N
- Longitude
- 113.1001° W
What is measuring near here
The 3 instruments nearest Switchback Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 11.2 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Essex US-2 MP 179.9MTESX
Beside a road/34.7 mi away/3,848 ft/3,946 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily1 instrument
Gibson LakeGDMM8
At a cooperative observer's station/26.5 mi away/4,751 ft/3,043 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 Switchback Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Heart Buttecommunity, 29 mi
- Snowslipcommunity, 29 mi
- Rockport Colonycommunity, 31 mi
- Dupuyercommunity, 34 mi
- Swan Lakecommunity, 34 mi
- Essexcommunity, 35 mi
- Bynumcommunity, 37 mi
- East Glacier Park Villagecommunity, 37 mi
- Birch Creek Colonycommunity, 37 mi
- Miller Colonycommunity, 37 mi
- Pendroycommunity, 39 mi
- Pondera Colonycommunity, 39 mi
Mountain passes near Switchback Pass
- Sun River Pass6 mi
- Teton Pass11 mi
- Spotted Bear Pass12 mi
- Gateway Pass12 mi
- Route Creek Pass13 mi
- Larch Hill Pass13 mi
- Headquarters Creek Pass15 mi
- Badger Pass15 mi