Citizen station WD4HMRWD4HMR
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.8 mi away/957 ft/320 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Rickwood Caverns State Park, Alabama
State Park in Blount County, Alabama70°
89°/62°
Clear·
Feels like 70°·Light air 2 mph S
Now. Rickwood Caverns State Park is 70° and clear at 9 PM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels oppressive. Light air from the south at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 62° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 62): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 83°, and the coolest Saturday, near 64°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 23 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
62Air quality
91%Humidity
3%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
70feels70
now, clear
Today
Oct 15
8962
UV 8
Fri
Oct 16
8362
16%
18mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6447
15mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6743
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7143
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7445
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7748
overcast
70°
89°62°
83°62°
64°47°
67°43°
71°43°
74°45°
77°48°
As of 9:00 PM in Rickwood Caverns State Park, Alabama.
Air quality
The air at Rickwood Caverns State Park
Index 62, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Birmingham (AL), 31 miles off.
62Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)62Moderate22.7 mi
- Ozone29Good15 ppb21.3 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)32Good22.7 mi
The days ahead
Moderate each day through Fri Oct 16, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 70, moderate.
GoodModerateSensitive groups
- 70YesterdayOct 14
- 93TodayOct 15
- 59FriOct 16
Smoke, the next 41 hours
Smoke near the ground peaks at index 56, moderate, Fri 3 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Rickwood Caverns State Park
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 8 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 Rickwood Caverns State Park, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 1 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 637 ft
- County
- Blount County
- State
- Alabama
- Latitude
- 33.8824° N
- Longitude
- 86.8537° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Rickwood Caverns State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.6 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Cullman 3 ENE63867
At a climate reference station/21.6 mi away/800 ft/163 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Cullman-Nahrc ScanCNSA1
At a river or reservoir gauge/21.8 mi away/799 ft/162 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Cullman-NAHRCS2113
At a soil climate station/21.8 mi away/799 ft/162 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
At an airfield/22.8 mi away/630 ft/7 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Warrior 4.8 WNWAL-BL-17
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.6 mi away/868 ft/231 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
HancevilleHNCA1
At a cooperative observer's station/13.3 mi away/594 ft/43 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 Rickwood Caverns State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Smoke Risecommunity, 2 mi
- Haydentown, 4 mi
- Colonytown, 5 mi
- Warriorcity, 6 mi
- Traffordtown, 7 mi
- Kimberlycity, 8 mi
- County Linetown, 9 mi
- Morristown, 10 mi
- Garden Citytown, 11 mi
- Dodge Citytown, 11 mi
- Locust Forktown, 13 mi
- Hancevillecity, 14 mi