LiriLRWA1
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.2 mi away/1,374 ft/157 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Little River Canyon National Preserve, Alabama
72°
75°/47°
Clear·
Feels like 72°·Light air 3 mph SSW
Now. Little River Canyon National Preserve is 72° and clear at 2 PM. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the south-southwest at 3 mph.
Where now comes from. The forecast for this hour, checked against 3 instruments within 33 miles. The nearest, Valley Head 1 SSW (247 rank 540 in Alabama), read at 12:00 PM.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 49° by 7 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 53): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 72°, and the coolest Sunday, near 67°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:01 PM. The Moon is a waxing gibbous, 79% lit, and sets at 3:13 AM after midnight. 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 bright Moon hides all but the brightest of them. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 9 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
5UV Moderate
53Air quality
31%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
2:00 PM
72feels72
now, clear
Today
Oct 21
7547
clear
Thu
Oct 22
7249
clear
Fri
Oct 23
7148
clear
Sat
Oct 24
6847
clear
Sun
Oct 25
6745
overcast
Mon
Oct 26
6945
overcast
Tue
Oct 27
7246
overcast
As of 2:00 PM in Little River Canyon National Preserve, Alabama.
Air quality
The air at Little River Canyon National Preserve
Index 53, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 2 PM from its reporting area, Rome (GA), 19 miles off.
53ModerateAir quality index now
- Set by
- Fine particles (PM2.5), averaged over the last 12 hours, the latest weighing most.
- Latest hour
- At the monitor 18.9 mi off, the latest hour alone reads 54, moderate.
- Smoke
- No smoke near the ground through Fri 7 AM.
- The air
- Wind 3 mph from the south southwest. Light wind keeps what is in the air near the ground.
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 55, moderate.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Little River Canyon National Preserve
None in the last 3 days, to Wed 1 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 Little River Canyon National Preserve, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Fri 7 AM.
- This hour
- 10+mi
- Hours under a mile
- 0
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- National Preserve
- Area
- 24 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,217 ft
- County
- DeKalb County
- State
- Alabama
- Latitude
- 34.4147° N
- Longitude
- 85.6039° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Little River Canyon National Preserve, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.2 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Fort_Payne4A9
At an airfield/7.8 mi away/876 ft/341 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Valley Head 1 SSW63862
At a climate reference station/10.0 mi away/1,020 ft/197 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Citizen station GW7110GW7110
In a volunteer observer's own ground/28.6 mi away/640 ft/577 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
HodgesS2055
At a soil climate station/32.1 mi away/730 ft/487 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/4.3 mi away/1,607 ft/390 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Fort PayneFOPA1
At a cooperative observer's station/7.1 mi away/912 ft/305 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 Little River Canyon National Preserve
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Broomtowncommunity, 5 mi
- Fort Paynecity, 7 mi
- Pine Ridgetown, 10 mi
- Valley Headtown, 10 mi
- Gaylesvilletown, 10 mi
- Mentonetown, 11 mi
- Hammondvilletown, 11 mi
- Cedar Blufftown, 13 mi
- Rainsvillecity, 15 mi
- Sylvaniatown, 16 mi
- Sand Rocktown, 16 mi
- Shilohtown, 16 mi