Mule Creek SnotelMULM8
A snow pillow on a mountain/2.9 mi away/8,300 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. The Sandbar is 37° and partly cloudy at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 32°. The dew point is 29°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the west-southwest at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 6 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 Monday, near 58°, and the coolest Friday, near 38°. Rain is likely Thursday (54%) and Friday (72%). Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:43 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 43% lit, and sets at 11:30 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 54 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in The Sandbar, Montana.
Air quality
Index 15, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Dillon (MT), 19 miles off.
Yesterday measured 13, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest The Sandbar, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Mule Creek SnotelMULM8
A snow pillow on a mountain/2.9 mi away/8,300 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Big Hole Pass CTY-278 MP 32MTBHP
Beside a road/17.2 mi away/6,719 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/21.4 mi away/5,240 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Polaris 3NPLSM8
At a cooperative observer's station/7.7 mi away/6,526 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Polaris 2.7 NMT-BV-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.1 mi away/6,583 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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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.