BessemerEKY
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/701 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Bessemer Airport, Alabama
Small airport in Jefferson County, Alabama66°
84°/63°
Clear·
Feels like 66°·Light air 1 mph SSW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 19 degrees cooler: a high of 65° after 84° today.
Now. Bessemer Airport is 66° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the south-southwest at 1 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 83° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 49° 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 80): 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 windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph.
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 21 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
80Air quality
92%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
66feels66
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8463
20%
22mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6549
21mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6745
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7145
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7447
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7749
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7950
overcast
66°
84°63°
65°49°
67°45°
71°45°
74°47°
77°49°
79°50°
As of 1:00 AM in Bessemer Airport, Alabama.
Air quality
The air at Bessemer Airport
Index 80, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Birmingham (AL), 11 miles off.
80Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)80Moderate4.5 mi
- Ozone10Good0 ppb4.5 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)57Moderate4.5 mi
The days ahead
Moderate each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 70, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 70YesterdayOct 15
- 59TodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 43 hours
Smoke near the ground peaks at index 55, moderate, Fri 1 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Bessemer Airport
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Bessemer Airport, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- EKY
- ICAO
- KEKY
- IATA
- -
- Field elevation
- 700 ft
- Serves
- Bessemer
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- EKY
- Wind now
- -
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 / 23 | 6,007 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 50° / 230° | - | - |
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Bessemer 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
Clanton-Chilton County AirportCLXA1
At an airfield/36.7 mi away/581 ft/119 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Clanton 2 NE63891
At a climate reference station/36.8 mi away/584 ft/116 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Helena 2.9 WNWAL-SH-38
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/479 ft/221 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
City Sewage PltBSMA1
At a cooperative observer's station/7.3 mi away/440 ft/260 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Alabama
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Bessemer Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Airports near Bessemer Airport
- Shelby County AirportEET, 13 mi
- Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International AirportBHM, 20 mi
- Merkel Field Sylacauga Municipal AirportSCD, 37 mi
- Tuscaloosa National AirportTCL, 40 mi
- St Clair County AirportPLR, 43 mi
- Walker County Airport Bevill FieldJFX, 46 mi
- Talladega Municipal AirportASN, 53 mi
- Thomas C Russell FieldALX, 62 mi