Temperature
68 F at 1 AM; 86 F at its warmest, 1 PM Thursday, and 63 F at its coolest, 4 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 68F
- 1 AM
- Highest
- 86F
- 1 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 63F
- 4 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Tomorrow is 17 degrees cooler: a high of 67° after 84° today.
Now. Auburn University Regional Airport is 67° and clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 82° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° 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 78°, and the coolest Sunday, near 66°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:08 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:22 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 23 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Auburn University Regional Airport, Alabama.
Air quality
Index 7, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Columbus-Phenix City - GA and AL (AL), 27 miles off.
Moderate each day through Today, led by fine particles.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 39 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 / 29 | 4,000 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 108° / 288° | Calm | Calm |
| 18 / 36 | 5,264 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 181° / 1° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from Auburn-Opelika Apt (AUO), Auburn University Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
68 F at 1 AM; 86 F at its warmest, 1 PM Thursday, and 63 F at its coolest, 4 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 63 F, the air 84% saturated; the humidity ran from 43% at 2 PM Thursday to 90% at 3 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Calm at 1 AM; at its strongest 5 mph, 4 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.10 inHg at 1 AM, 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 6 miles at 7 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 4,900 ft at 1 AM; a base was reported in 1 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
Auburn-Opelika Apt: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Auburn University Regional Airport, 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 now3 instruments
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/774 ft/3 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
TuskegeeTKGA1
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.7 mi away/354 ft/423 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
TuskegeeS2115
At a soil climate station/22.1 mi away/400 ft/377 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Auburn 1.5 EAL-LE-25
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/631 ft/146 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
No 2/Water Treatment PlantABNA1
At a water treatment plant/2.1 mi away/676 ft/101 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.