Black Warrior R At Bankhead L&D Near Bessemer02462500
At a river or reservoir gauge/31.9 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 14 degrees cooler: a high of 67° after 81° today.
Now. Fayette is 62° and clear at 4 AM. The dew point is 60°, so the air feels a little humid. Light air from the south-southwest at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 77° by 11 AM. Tonight falls to about 48° by 4 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 83°, 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 10:28 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 20 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Fayette, Alabama.
Air quality
Index 6, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Tuscaloosa (AL), 33 miles off.
Yesterday measured 45, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
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 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Fayette, AlabamaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Fayette, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Black Warrior R At Bankhead L&D Near Bessemer02462500
At a river or reservoir gauge/31.9 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station DW1375DW1375
In a volunteer observer's own ground/32.4 mi away/187 ft/200 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
ManchesterJFX
At an airfield/33.0 mi away/482 ft/95 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Northport 2 S73801
At a climate reference station/36.2 mi away/150 ft/237 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Sudduth FarmsS2179
At a soil climate station/39.8 mi away/772 ft/385 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
FayetteFYTA1
At a cooperative observer's station/0.8 mi away/328 ft/59 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Fayette 1.3 SAL-FY-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.3 mi away/336 ft/51 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 33.0 mi from Fayette, Alabama. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 2 mi.
59.0 F with a dew point of 59.0 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground.
Calm.
The full report of Manchester, 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.