Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for South Alabama Regional At Bill Benton Field Airport until 7 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 17 degrees cooler: a high of 69° after 86° today.
Now. South Alabama Regional At Bill Benton Field Airport is 67° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 85° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 52° by 7 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.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 79°, and the coolest Sunday, near 67°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:13 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:30 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 11 hours 25 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in South Alabama Regional At Bill Benton Field Airport, Alabama.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Okaloosa County (FL), 44 miles off.
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 61, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 33 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 / 29 | 6,000 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 107° / 287° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from Andalusia (79J), South Alabama Regional At Bill Benton Field Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
67 F at 10 PM Thursday; 87 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 61 F at its coolest, 5 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 65 F, the air 93% saturated; the humidity ran from 42% at 3 PM Thursday to 97% at 7 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Calm at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 5 mph, 12 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.08 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, steady over 3 hours; the same as a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 6 miles at 3 AM Thursday; 9 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 300 ft at 3 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 4 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
Andalusia: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest South Alabama Regional At Bill Benton Field Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
measured daily2 instruments
Andalusia 5.2 NNWAL-CV-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.5 mi away/226 ft/84 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
GreenvilleGVLA1
At a cooperative observer's station/36.0 mi away/348 ft/38 ft above 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.