Coming up. Tomorrow is 20 degrees cooler: a high of 65° after 85° today.
Now. Shelby County Airport is 67° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 83° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° 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 72): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 65°. 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 10:26 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 Shelby County Airport, Alabama.
Air quality
Index 72, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Birmingham (AL), 18 miles off.
Moderate each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 70, moderate.
Smoke near the ground peaks at index 66, 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 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 / 34 unlit | 5,000 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 157° / 337° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from Alabaster (EET), Shelby County Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
67 F at 10 PM Thursday; 85 F at its warmest, 12 PM Thursday, and 62 F at its coolest, 6 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 45% at 12 PM Thursday to 100% at 4 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Calm 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
30.08 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 5 miles at 3 AM Thursday; 6 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 3,700 ft at 4 PM 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
Alabaster: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Shelby County Airport, 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 now3 instruments
AlabasterEET
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/564 ft/22 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Clanton-Chilton County AirportCLXA1
At an airfield/24.6 mi away/581 ft/5 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Clanton 2 NE63891
At a climate reference station/24.7 mi away/584 ft/2 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Calera 3.4 NNWAL-SH-59
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.1 mi away/599 ft/13 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
CaleraCLRA1
At a cooperative observer's station/5.1 mi away/548 ft/38 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.