Lower Twin SnotelLWTM8
A snow pillow on a mountain/11.8 mi away/7,900 ft/123 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Montana/Windy Pass
Windy Pass, Montana
Mountain pass in Madison County, Montana, at 8,023 ft27°
45°/20°
Clear·
Feels like 22°·Light breeze 4 mph W
Now. Windy Pass is 27° and clear at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 22°. The dew point is 22°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the west at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 25° by 2 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 Saturday, near 54°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 46°. Rain is possible Wednesday (37%). The windiest day is Saturday, with wind to 23 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 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 59 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
9Air quality
81%Humidity
2%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
27feels22
now, clear
Today
Oct 15
4520
mostly clear day
Fri
Oct 16
5225
17mph
Sat
Oct 17
5431
23mph
Sun
Oct 18
5029
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5330
12mph
Tue
Oct 20
4932
17%
Wed
Oct 21
4630
37%
27°
45°20°
52°25°
54°31°
50°29°
53°30°
49°32°
46°30°
As of 10:00 PM in Windy Pass, Montana.
Air quality
The air at Windy Pass
Index 9, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Dillon (MT), 46 miles off.
9Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)9Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 21, good.
GoodModerate
- 21YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Windy 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 Windy Pass, the next 45 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
- 8,023 ft
- County
- Madison County
- State
- Montana
- Latitude
- 45.6763° N
- Longitude
- 111.9675° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Windy Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 10.0 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Beside a road/17.9 mi away/5,715 ft/2,308 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Twin BridgesRVF
At an airfield/18.9 mi away/4,756 ft/3,267 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Table MountainS0808
At a soil climate station/20.3 mi away/4,474 ft/3,549 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Citizen station CW7710CW7710
In a volunteer observer's own ground/30.3 mi away/4,230 ft/3,793 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Harrison 1.0 ENEMT-MD-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.0 mi away/4,885 ft/3,138 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Madison River 6 NE McAllister below Ennis LakeMADM8
At a cooperative observer's station/20.9 mi away/4,905 ft/3,118 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Madison River 6 NE McAllister below Ennis Lake (MADM8), 20.9 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 15:30. measured daily
Elsewhere in Montana
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Windy Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Mammothcommunity, 3 mi
- Ponycommunity, 4 mi
- Harrisoncommunity, 9 mi
- Cardwellcommunity, 13 mi
- Whitehalltown, 15 mi
- Norriscommunity, 15 mi
- Silver Starcommunity, 15 mi
- Brandoncommunity, 17 mi
- Willow Creekcommunity, 19 mi
- Sheridantown, 19 mi
- Twin Bridgestown, 20 mi
- Rader Creekcommunity, 20 mi
Mountain passes near Windy Pass
- Mustard Pass10 mi
- Low Pass10 mi
- Tom Graham Pass13 mi
- Steels Pass24 mi
- Pipestone Pass26 mi
- McCormack Pass26 mi
- Homestake Pass27 mi
- Elk Park Pass34 mi