Shades Creek At Elder St Near Springdale02423571
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.2 mi away/678 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Golf courses/Alabama/Mountain Brook Club
Coming up. Tomorrow is 19 degrees cooler: a high of 66° after 85° today.
Now. Mountain Brook Club is 63° and clear at 5 AM. The dew point is 61°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the south-southwest at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 82° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° by 7 AM, with some cloud. 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 97): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 81°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 66°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:12 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:24 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 day is 11 hours 21 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 AM in Mountain Brook Club, Alabama.
Air quality
Index 97, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Birmingham (AL), 6 miles off.
Moderate each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 73, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM: the index from smoke stays at 33 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 9 miles Fri 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Mountain Brook Club, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Shades Creek At Elder St Near Springdale02423571
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.2 mi away/678 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/4.9 mi away/630 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW4659GW4659
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.9 mi away/634 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Mountain Brook 2.1 NNEAL-JF-32
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/781 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Cahaba Pump HouseCHTA1
At a cooperative observer's station/3.3 mi away/495 ft/- ft from 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.