Precipitation Station At Millers Ferry Dam320602087235701
At a dam/6.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Boykin until 7 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 19 degrees cooler: a high of 67° after 86° today.
Now. Boykin is 65° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 85° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° 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 80°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 67°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:16 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:31 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 24 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Boykin, Alabama.
Air quality
Index 44, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Ward (AL), 64 miles off.
Yesterday measured 44, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Boykin, AlabamaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Boykin, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Precipitation Station At Millers Ferry Dam320602087235701
At a dam/6.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
SelmaSEM
At an airfield/26.1 mi away/145 ft/3 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Selma 6 SSE63897
At a climate reference station/26.2 mi away/157 ft/9 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
SelmaS2176
At a soil climate station/33.0 mi away/140 ft/8 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Camden 1.0 NNEAL-WX-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.6 mi away/262 ft/114 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Selma 13 WNWMAJA1
At a cooperative observer's station/27.0 mi away/180 ft/32 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 26.2 mi from Boykin, Alabama. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:00 PM local time: 3 of its 4 sheets.
66.9 F with a dew point of 66.9 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground.
At 157 ft above sea level, 1 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 29.75 inHg and the temperature at 58.4 F; it reports 66.9 F, 8.5 F warmer than standard.
On Oct 16 the noon sun stands 49 degrees above the horizon at 32.33 N, and the day is 11 h 14 min long. Level ground there takes 75 per cent of the noon sunlight a surface facing the sun would.
The full report of Selma 6 SSE, in 4 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.