Coming up. Tomorrow is 19 degrees cooler: a high of 66° after 85° today.
Now. Thomas C Russell Field is 65° and mostly 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 84° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° 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. Air quality is moderate (index 66): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 78°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 66°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:10 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:23 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 22 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Thomas C Russell Field, Alabama.
Air quality
Index 66, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Montgomery (AL), 50 miles off.
Yesterday measured 68, moderate.
Smoke near the ground peaks at index 99, moderate, Fri 12 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 / 36 | 5,422 ft | 96 ft | Asphalt | 178° / 358° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from Alexander City (ALX), Thomas C Russell Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
66 F at 10 PM Thursday; 87 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 59 F at its coolest, 3 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 64 F, the air 96% saturated; the humidity ran from 49% at 3 PM Thursday to 100% at 1 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
1 mph from the west northwest at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 5 mph, 1 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.09 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, steady over 3 hours; 0.01 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 4 miles at 9 PM Thursday; 4 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Alexander City: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 6 instruments nearest Thomas C Russell Field, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/633 ft/53 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Morris Farms ScanMRSA1
At a river or reservoir gauge/34.9 mi away/220 ft/466 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Morris FarmsS2178
At a soil climate station/34.9 mi away/220 ft/466 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Clanton 2 NE63891
At a climate reference station/37.8 mi away/584 ft/102 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Alexander CityALXA1
At a cooperative observer's station/2.3 mi away/735 ft/49 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Alexander City 3.1 NNEAL-TP-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.2 mi away/654 ft/32 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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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.