SylacaugaSCD
At an airfield/9.4 mi away/559 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Theme parks/Alabama/Majestic Caverns
Coming up. Tomorrow is 19 degrees cooler: a high of 66° after 85° today.
Now. Majestic Caverns is 64° and mostly clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 62°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 84° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° by 6 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 85): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 66°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:11 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:23 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 22 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Majestic Caverns, Alabama.
Air quality
Index 85, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Birmingham (AL), 31 miles off.
Moderate each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 73, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 39 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Majestic Caverns, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
SylacaugaSCD
At an airfield/9.4 mi away/559 ft/- ft from here
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Citizen station DW8167DW8167
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.4 mi away/423 ft/- ft from here
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TalladegaTLDA1
At a river or reservoir gauge/14.7 mi away/643 ft/- ft from here
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Talladega 10 NNE73803
At a climate reference station/22.5 mi away/525 ft/- ft from here
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measured daily2 instruments
At a cooperative observer's station/4.1 mi away/413 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Bon Air 2.8 SSEAL-TG-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.2 mi away/492 ft/- ft from 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.