Wind
Calm at 1 AM; at its strongest 7 mph, 4 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
- Now
- 0mph
- calm
- Strongest
- 7mph
- 4 PM Thursday
- Highest gust
- -
- none reported
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Isbell Field, Alabama
Small airport in DeKalb County, Alabama63°
81°/61°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 63°·Calm 0 mph SW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 19 degrees cooler: a high of 62° after 81° today.
Now. Isbell Field is 63° and mostly cloudy at 2 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 80° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 45° by 6 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 54): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 62°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:07 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% 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 11 hours 19 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
54Air quality
100%Humidity
72%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
63feels63
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 16
8161
10%
17mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6245
10%
16mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6541
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
6941
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7244
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7547
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7648
overcast
63°
81°61°
62°45°
65°41°
69°41°
72°44°
75°47°
76°48°
As of 2:00 AM in Isbell Field, Alabama.
Air quality
The air at Isbell Field
Index 54, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Rome (GA), 27 miles off.
54Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)54Moderate-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 47, good.
GoodModerate
- 47YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 42 hours
Smoke near the ground peaks at index 66, moderate, Fri 6 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Isbell Field
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. 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 Isbell Field, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- 4A9
- ICAO
- -
- IATA
- -
- Field elevation
- 877 ft
- Serves
- Fort Payne
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- 4A9
- Wind now
- Calm, read 16 Oct, 01:35
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 / 22 | 5,001 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 39° / 219° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Fort_Payne (4A9), Isbell Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Pressure
30.09 inHg at 1 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.02 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.09inHg
- 1 AM
- 3 hours
- +0.01inHg
- steady
- 24 hours
- -0.02inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 0.8 miles at 1 AM, under a mile for 1 hour; 0.8 miles now.
- Now
- 0.8mi
- Lowest
- 0.8mi
- 1 AM
- Hours under a mile
- 1
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Cloud base
The lowest cloud base came down to 300 ft at 1 AM; a base was reported in 1 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 300ft
- 1 AM
- Hours with a base reported
- 1
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Wettest hour
- -
- Hours with some
- 0
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Fort_Payne: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Isbell 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
Fort_Payne4A9
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/876 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Valley Head Hcn-MVHXA1
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.7 mi away/1,024 ft/147 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Valley Head 1 SSW63862
At a climate reference station/8.7 mi away/1,020 ft/143 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
HodgesS2055
At a soil climate station/25.4 mi away/730 ft/147 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Fort Payne 0.3 NWAL-DK-23
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/1,039 ft/162 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Fort PayneFOPA1
At a cooperative observer's station/2.3 mi away/912 ft/35 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Alabama
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
AnnistoncityAuburncityBirminghamcityCullmancityDauphin IslandtownDecaturcityDothancityFlorencecityFort PaynecityGadsdencityGulf ShorestownHuntsvillecityJaspercityLake GuntersvillefeatureMobilecityMobile BayfeatureMontgomerycityMount CheahafeatureSelmacityTalladega National ForestfeatureTroycityTuscaloosacity
Near Isbell Field
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Fort Paynecity, 2 mi
- Pine Ridgetown, 4 mi
- Rainsvillecity, 7 mi
- Sylvaniatown, 8 mi
- Valley Headtown, 9 mi
- Hammondvilletown, 9 mi
- Shilohtown, 9 mi
- Mentonetown, 11 mi
- Fyffetown, 11 mi
- Powelltown, 11 mi
- Henagarcity, 11 mi
- Broomtowncommunity, 12 mi
Airports near Isbell Field
- Scottsboro Municipal Word Field4A6, 22 mi
- Guntersville Municipal Joe Starnes Field8A1, 31 mi
- Albertville Regional Airport/Thomas J Brumlik FieldBFZ, 35 mi
- Northeast Alabama Regional AirportGAD, 40 mi
- Madison County Executive Airport-Tom Sharp Jr FieldMDQ, 55 mi
- Redstone Army Air FieldHUA, 57 mi
- Huntsville International AirportHSV, 61 mi
- Anniston Regional AirportANB, 62 mi