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At a river or reservoir gauge/3.7 mi away/1,374 ft/264 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Desoto State Park, Alabama
State Park in DeKalb County, Alabama73°
78°/59°
Clear·
Feels like 73°·Gentle breeze 9 mph W
Coming up. Tomorrow is 20 degrees cooler: a high of 58° after 78° today.
Now. Desoto State Park is 73° and clear at 11 AM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. Gentle breeze from the west at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 77° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 44° by 2 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:07 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:17 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 19 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
6UV Moderate
72Air quality
64%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
11:00 AM
73feels73
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
7859
18%
17mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
5843
16mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6238
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
6538
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6841
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7144
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7346
overcast
73°
78°59°
58°43°
62°38°
65°38°
68°41°
71°44°
73°46°
As of 11:00 AM in Desoto State Park, Alabama.
Air quality
The air at Desoto State Park
Index 72, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 10 AM from its reporting area, Rome (GA), 24 miles off.
72Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)72Moderate-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 47, good.
GoodModerate
- 47YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 45 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Desoto State Park
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 9 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 Desoto State Park, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 7 AM, lowest 10 miles Sat 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 2.36 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,638 ft
- County
- DeKalb County
- State
- Alabama
- Latitude
- 34.5000° N
- Longitude
- 85.6413° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Desoto State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.0 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Valley Head 1 SSW63862
At a climate reference station/4.5 mi away/1,020 ft/618 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Fort_Payne4A9
At an airfield/4.9 mi away/876 ft/762 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW7110GW7110
In a volunteer observer's own ground/24.2 mi away/640 ft/998 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
HodgesS2055
At a soil climate station/30.1 mi away/730 ft/908 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Fort Payne 3.6 ENEAL-DK-22
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/1,607 ft/31 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Valley Head Hcn-MVHXA1
At a cooperative observer's station/4.7 mi away/1,024 ft/614 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Alabama
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Desoto State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Valley Headtown, 5 mi
- Hammondvilletown, 5 mi
- Fort Paynecity, 6 mi
- Mentonetown, 6 mi
- Pine Ridgetown, 9 mi
- Sylvaniatown, 11 mi
- Broomtowncommunity, 11 mi
- Henagarcity, 11 mi
- Rainsvillecity, 12 mi
- Shilohtown, 14 mi
- Idertown, 14 mi
- Powelltown, 15 mi