At an airfield/13.8 mi away/568 ft/51 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 19 degrees cooler: a high of 66° after 85° today.
Now. Ashville is 62° and mostly clear at 5 AM. The dew point is 61°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the south-southwest at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 83° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° 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. 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 6:10 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:21 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 day is 11 hours 20 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 AM in Ashville, Alabama.
Air quality
Index 6, good, led by ozone. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Gadsden (AL), 20 miles off.
Yesterday measured 49, good.
Smoke near the ground peaks at index 79, moderate, Fri 5 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 9 miles Fri 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Ashville, AlabamaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Ashville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.9 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
At an airfield/13.8 mi away/568 ft/51 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.9 mi away/595 ft/24 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Al Talladega 10 NNETLXA1
At a river or reservoir gauge/21.2 mi away/525 ft/94 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Talladega 10 NNE73803
At a climate reference station/21.6 mi away/525 ft/94 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Cullman-NAHRCS2113
At a soil climate station/40.0 mi away/799 ft/180 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Ashville 2.7 SWAL-SC-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.9 mi away/592 ft/27 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Ragland 3SSWRAGA1
At a cooperative observer's station/9.5 mi away/488 ft/131 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 13.9 mi from Ashville, Alabama. From its report of undefined: 3 of its 4 sheets.
Calm.
At 595 ft above sea level, 2 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 29.28 inHg and the temperature at 56.9 F; the station's altimeter setting of 30.05 inHg means its barometer reads 29.41 inHg; it reports 62.0 F, 5.1 F warmer than standard.
On Oct 16 the noon sun stands 47 degrees above the horizon at 33.63 N, and the day is 11 h 11 min long. Level ground there takes 73 per cent of the noon sunlight a surface facing the sun would.
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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.