Scottsboro 2 NE63896
At a climate reference station/21.9 mi away/636 ft/776 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Now. Russell Cave National Monument is 50° and clear at 9 AM. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 64° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° 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.
The week. Highs stay close to 71° all week. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:05 PM. The Moon is a first quarter, 52% lit, and sets at 12:13 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 15 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 AM in Russell Cave National Monument, Alabama.
Air quality
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 AM from its reporting area, Chattanooga (TN), 27 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 24, good.
No smoke near the ground through Tue 1 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Sun 8 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Tue 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Russell Cave National Monument, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Scottsboro 2 NE63896
At a climate reference station/21.9 mi away/636 ft/776 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Scottsboro Municipal Airport Hcn-MSCXA1
At an airfield/21.9 mi away/617 ft/795 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Scottsburo4A6
At an airfield/22.4 mi away/650 ft/762 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW7110GW7110
In a volunteer observer's own ground/27.5 mi away/640 ft/772 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Bridgeport 5 NWBRPA1
At a cooperative observer's station/1.1 mi away/778 ft/634 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Bridgeport 0.2 NEAL-JC-22
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.1 mi away/706 ft/706 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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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.