Precipitation
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Wettest hour
- -
- Hours with some
- 0
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Madison County Executive Airport-Tom Sharp Jr Field, Alabama
Small airport in Madison County, Alabama68°
90°/64°
Clear·
Feels like 68°·Calm 1 mph S
Coming up. Tomorrow is 11 degrees cooler: a high of 79° after 90° today.
Now. Madison County Executive Airport-Tom Sharp Jr Field is 68° and clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 62° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 58): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 79°, and the coolest Saturday, near 63°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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
58Air quality
92%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
68feels68
now, clear
Today
Oct 15
9064
UV 7
Fri
Oct 16
7961
22%
18mph
Sat
Oct 17
6345
17mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6838
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7141
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7443
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7745
overcast
68°
90°64°
79°61°
63°45°
68°38°
71°41°
74°43°
77°45°
As of 10:00 PM in Madison County Executive Airport-Tom Sharp Jr Field, Alabama.
Air quality
The air at Madison County Executive Airport-Tom Sharp Jr Field
Index 58, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Huntsville (AL), 17 miles off.
58Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)58Moderate11.8 mi
- Ozone23Good16 ppb11.8 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)19Good11.8 mi
The days ahead
Moderate each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 56, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 56YesterdayOct 14
- 56TodayOct 15
- 53FriOct 16
Smoke, the next 46 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 28 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Madison County Executive Airport-Tom Sharp Jr Field
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. 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 Madison County Executive Airport-Tom Sharp Jr Field, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- MDQ
- ICAO
- KMDQ
- IATA
- -
- Field elevation
- 756 ft
- Serves
- Huntsville
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- MDQ
- Wind now
- Calm, read 15 Oct, 22:15
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 / 36 | 6,500 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 181° / 1° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Huntsville/Madison County Exec (MDQ), Madison County Executive Airport-Tom Sharp Jr Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Madison County Executive Airport-Tom Sharp Jr Field, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Huntsville/Madison County ExecMDQ
At an airfield/0.2 mi away/755 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
WtarsS2053
At a soil climate station/3.0 mi away/625 ft/131 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Bragg Farm ScanBRAA1
On a farm or research station/3.4 mi away/798 ft/42 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Scottsboro 2 NE63896
At a climate reference station/34.3 mi away/636 ft/120 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Meridianville 2.0 SSWAL-MD-135
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/731 ft/25 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Madison 2 NMAFA1
At a cooperative observer's station/14.1 mi away/764 ft/8 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Madison 2 N (MAFA1), 14.1 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Alabama
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
AnnistoncityAuburncityBirminghamcityCullmancityDauphin IslandtownDecaturcityDothancityFlorencecityFort PaynecityGadsdencityGulf ShorestownHuntsvillecityJaspercityLake GuntersvillefeatureMobilecityMobile BayfeatureMontgomerycityMount CheahafeatureSelmacityTalladega National ForestfeatureTroycityTuscaloosacity
Near Madison County Executive Airport-Tom Sharp Jr Field
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Meridianvillecommunity, 1 mi
- Moores Millcommunity, 3 mi
- Hazel Greencommunity, 4 mi
- New Marketcommunity, 8 mi
- Huntsvillecity, 9 mi
- Harvestcommunity, 11 mi
- Redstone Arsenalcommunity, 12 mi
- Gurleytown, 15 mi
- Madisoncity, 15 mi
- Ardmoretown, 18 mi
- Paint Rocktown, 19 mi
- Pleasant Grovestown, 21 mi
Airports near Madison County Executive Airport-Tom Sharp Jr Field
- Redstone Army Air FieldHUA, 15 mi
- Huntsville International AirportHSV, 20 mi
- Pryor Field Regional AirportDCU, 26 mi
- Scottsboro Municipal Word Field4A6, 34 mi
- Guntersville Municipal Joe Starnes Field8A1, 36 mi
- Cullman Regional Airport-Folsom FieldCMD, 44 mi
- Albertville Regional Airport/Thomas J Brumlik FieldBFZ, 47 mi
- Courtland Airport9A4, 47 mi