Wood Creek SnotelWODM8
A snow pillow on a mountain/8.5 mi away/5,960 ft/166 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Montana/Welcome Pass
Welcome Pass, Montana
Mountain pass in Lewis and Clark County, Montana, at 6,126 ft* WHAT...Westerly winds 30 to 50 mph with gusts up to 75 mph possible. * WHERE...East Glacier Park Region Zone, and Eastern Glacier, Western Toole, and Central Pondera, Northern High Plains, Southern High Plains, and Southern Rocky Mountain Front. * WHEN...From Saturday morning through Saturday evening. * IMPACTS...Travel could be difficult, especially for high profile vehicles. Isolated instances of tree damage and or power outages are possible. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The strong winds will also bring difficult conditions for outdoor recreation in portions Glacier National Park, particularly over and near higher terrain on the eastern side of the Park.
Monitor the latest forecasts and warnings for updates.
29°
56°/29°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 24°·Light breeze 5 mph WSW
Alert. A High Wind Watch is in force for Welcome Pass until 12 AM Sunday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Welcome Pass is 29° and mostly clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 24°. The dew point is 29°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the west-southwest at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 55° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 77): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Monday, near 58°, and the coolest Thursday, near 50°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:41 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:17 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 51 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
77Air quality
74%Humidity
32%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
29feels24
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 16
5629
mostly clear day
Sat
Oct 17
5734
18mph
Sun
Oct 18
5230
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5831
partly cloudy day
Tue
Oct 20
5434
11%
Wed
Oct 21
5131
24%
Thu
Oct 22
5032
12%
29°
56°29°
57°34°
52°30°
58°31°
54°34°
51°31°
50°32°
As of 12:00 AM in Welcome Pass, Montana.
Air quality
The air at Welcome Pass
Index 77, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Seeley Lake (MT), 37 miles off.
77Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)77Moderate-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 54, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 54YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 43 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Welcome 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 Welcome 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
- 6,126 ft
- County
- Lewis and Clark County
- State
- Montana
- Latitude
- 47.3411° N
- Longitude
- 112.7267° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Welcome Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 8.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Roger's PassMTROG
Beside a road/24.1 mi away/5,390 ft/736 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Golf1GM
At an airfield/29.4 mi away/4,333 ft/1,793 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Gibson LakeGDMM8
At a cooperative observer's station/18.1 mi away/4,751 ft/1,375 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Lincoln 0.2 SEMT-LC-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/26.9 mi away/4,552 ft/1,574 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.
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Near Welcome Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Augustacommunity, 19 mi
- Gilmancommunity, 21 mi
- Milford Colonycommunity, 24 mi
- Lincolncommunity, 27 mi
- Ovandocommunity, 29 mi
- Helmvillecommunity, 35 mi
- Seeley Lakecommunity, 37 mi
- Wolf Creekcommunity, 39 mi
- Simmscommunity, 39 mi
- Fairfieldtown, 40 mi
- Craigcommunity, 40 mi
- Choteaucity, 41 mi
Mountain passes near Welcome Pass
- Straight Creek Pass2 mi
- Elk Pass4 mi
- Elbow Pass8 mi
- Observation Pass10 mi
- Windy Pass17 mi
- Echo Pass18 mi
- Camp Pass19 mi
- Limestone Pass19 mi