Beside a road/9.2 mi away/2,280 ft/2,995 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mountain passes/Montana/Windy Pass
Now. Windy Pass is 31° and clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the southeast at 1 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 56° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 5 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 54°, and the coolest Thursday, near 49°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:53 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:23 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 49 minutes long, 4 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Windy Pass, Montana.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Kootenai Tribe (ID), 17 miles off.
Yesterday measured 27, good.
Smoke near the ground peaks at index 53, moderate, Sat 7 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 4 instruments nearest Windy Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.4 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Beside a road/9.2 mi away/2,280 ft/2,995 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Troy RAWSTROM8
A remote fire weather station/17.6 mi away/2,897 ft/2,378 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Troy 17.0 NMT-LN-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.4 mi away/2,691 ft/2,584 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
TroyTRSM8
At a cooperative observer's station/16.7 mi away/1,994 ft/3,281 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.