Mt. Longleaf RAWSLGLA1
A remote fire weather station/4.3 mi away/1,017 ft/224 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 19 degrees cooler: a high of 66° after 85° today.
Now. Choccolocco is 63° and clear at 5 AM. The dew point is 60°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the southwest at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 83° by 1 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 Wednesday, near 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 66°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:08 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:20 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 21 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 AM in Choccolocco, Alabama.
Air quality
Index 6, good, led by ozone. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Gadsden (AL), 32 miles off.
Yesterday measured 49, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM: the index from smoke stays at 33 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Choccolocco, AlabamaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Choccolocco, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.3 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Mt. Longleaf RAWSLGLA1
A remote fire weather station/4.3 mi away/1,017 ft/224 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW7134GW7134
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.6 mi away/971 ft/178 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
AnnistonANB
At an airfield/8.9 mi away/597 ft/196 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Talladega 10 NNE73803
At a climate reference station/20.0 mi away/525 ft/268 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
WedoweeS2175
At a soil climate station/25.9 mi away/934 ft/141 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Water PlantHEFA1
At a cooperative observer's station/7.1 mi away/922 ft/129 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Weaver 0.4 SWAL-CN-16
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.0 mi away/730 ft/63 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.9 mi from Choccolocco, Alabama. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 9 mi.
61.0 F with a dew point of 60.0 F, 97 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 200 ft up.
Calm.
The full report of Anniston, 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.