Coming up. Tomorrow is 19 degrees cooler: a high of 62° after 81° today.
Now. Scottsboro Municipal Word Field is 64° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 78° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° by 3 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour. Air quality is moderate (index 58): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 77°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 62°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:08 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:18 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 11 hours 19 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Scottsboro Municipal Word Field, Alabama.
Air quality
Index 58, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Huntsville (AL), 38 miles off.
Moderate each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 56, moderate.
Smoke near the ground peaks at index 56, moderate, Fri 6 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 / 22 | 5,240 ft | 80 ft | Asphalt | 37° / 217° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from Scottsburo (4A6), Scottsboro Municipal Word Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
67 F at 10 PM Thursday; 88 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 64 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 67 F, the air 100% saturated; the humidity ran from 51% at 4 PM Thursday to 100% at 1 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Calm at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 7 mph, 3 PM Thursday, with a gust of 13 mph at 2 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.07 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, steady over 3 hours; 0.02 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 0.3 miles at 6 AM Thursday, under a mile for 3 hours; 5 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 100 ft at 4 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 6 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Scottsburo: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 6 instruments nearest Scottsboro Municipal Word Field, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Scottsburo4A6
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/650 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Scottsboro Municipal Airport Hcn-MSCXA1
At an airfield/0.5 mi away/617 ft/33 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Scottsboro 2 NE63896
At a climate reference station/0.9 mi away/636 ft/14 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
HodgesS2055
At a soil climate station/19.1 mi away/730 ft/80 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Scottsboro 3.3 NEAL-JC-24
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/661 ft/11 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Scottsboro Municipal Airport Hcn-MSCXA1
At an airfield/0.5 mi away/617 ft/33 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.