EvergreenGZH
At an airfield/17.7 mi away/259 ft/151 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Excel until 7 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 17 degrees cooler: a high of 68° after 85° today.
Now. Excel is 62° and partly cloudy at 4 AM. The dew point is 60°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 84° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° 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 78°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 68°. 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 10:33 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, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Excel, Alabama.
Air quality
Index 48, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Pensacola (FL), 52 miles off.
Highest moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 61, moderate.
Smoke near the ground peaks at index 55, moderate, Fri 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 10 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Excel, AlabamaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Excel, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
EvergreenGZH
At an airfield/17.7 mi away/259 ft/151 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
At a river or reservoir gauge/25.4 mi away/299 ft/111 ft below here
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Perdido Riv FarmsS2181
At a soil climate station/25.4 mi away/299 ft/111 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Brewton 3 NNE63899
At a climate reference station/26.5 mi away/170 ft/240 ft below here
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measured daily2 instruments
Mexia 0.4 SAL-MN-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.6 mi away/421 ft/11 ft above here
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State NurseryATMA1
At a cooperative observer's station/18.6 mi away/341 ft/69 ft below here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 17.7 mi from Excel, Alabama. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 6,000 ft; the ceiling is 6,000 ft; visibility 5 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; the lowest cloud reported is at 6,000 ft.
Calm.
The full report of Evergreen, 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.