Bay Minette1R8
At an airfield/2.7 mi away/236 ft/35 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Bay Minette until 7 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 16 degrees cooler: a high of 70° after 86° today.
Now. Bay Minette is 67° and mostly cloudy at 2 AM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 86° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 53° 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 55): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 80°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 70°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:19 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:37 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 26 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Bay Minette, Alabama.
Air quality
Index 55, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Mobile (AL), 13 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 58, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 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 8 miles Fri 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
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The 7 instruments nearest Bay Minette, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Bay Minette1R8
At an airfield/2.7 mi away/236 ft/35 ft below here
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Citizen station GW2175GW2175
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.0 mi away/141 ft/130 ft below here
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Mobile State DocksNDBC-OBLA1
At a river or reservoir gauge/19.9 mi away/-/- ft from here
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Perdido Riv FarmsS2181
At a soil climate station/20.5 mi away/299 ft/28 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Fairhope 3 NE63869
At a climate reference station/24.3 mi away/95 ft/176 ft below here
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measured daily2 instruments
Bay MinetteBAYA1
At a cooperative observer's station/0.6 mi away/289 ft/18 ft above here
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Bay Minette 1.7 WNWAL-BW-29
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/266 ft/5 ft below here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 2.7 mi from Bay Minette, Alabama. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 5,000 ft, broken at 5,500 ft; the ceiling is 5,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
66.2 F with a dew point of 66.2 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 5,000 ft.
Calm.
The full report of Bay Minette, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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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.