Temperature
64 F at 2 AM; 87 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 61 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 64F
- 2 AM
- Highest
- 87F
- 3 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 61F
- 6 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Enterprise Municipal 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. Enterprise Municipal Airport is 65° 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 85° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 53° 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 67°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:11 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:28 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Enterprise Municipal Airport, Alabama.
Air quality
Index 5, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Holmes, Jackson, and Washington Counties (FL), 45 miles off.
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone.
Smoke near the ground peaks at index 81, moderate, Fri 2 AM.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 / 23 | 5,080 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 52° / 232° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from Enterprise (EDN), Enterprise Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
64 F at 2 AM; 87 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 61 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 63 F, the air 97% saturated; the humidity ran from 41% at 4 PM Thursday to 100% at 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Calm at 2 AM; at its strongest 3 mph, 2 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.07 inHg at 2 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 7 miles at 3 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 5,000 ft at 1 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 3 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
Enterprise: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Enterprise Municipal 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 now3 instruments
EnterpriseEDN
At an airfield/0.3 mi away/344 ft/17 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Troy 2 W23801
At a climate reference station/34.4 mi away/472 ft/111 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
TroyTRXA1
At a river or reservoir gauge/34.4 mi away/482 ft/121 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Enterprise 0.7 NWAL-CF-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.8 mi away/393 ft/32 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Geneva No. 2GVAA1
At a cooperative observer's station/18.1 mi away/135 ft/226 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.