West Point Lake Near West Point02339400
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.7 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 17 degrees cooler: a high of 66° after 83° today.
Now. Five Points is 82° and mostly clear at 1 PM. The dew point is 61°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the west at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 68° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° by 6 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 62): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 77°, and the coolest Sunday, near 65°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:07 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 22 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 PM in Five Points, Alabama.
Air quality
Index 62, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 1 PM from its reporting area, Columbus-Phenix City - GA and AL (GA), 42 miles off.
Highest 55, moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 59, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM: the index from smoke stays at 28 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Five Points, AlabamaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Five Points, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
West Point Lake Near West Point02339400
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.7 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW6974GW6974
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.7 mi away/626 ft/253 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
WedoweeS2175
At a soil climate station/23.8 mi away/934 ft/55 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
At an airfield/28.2 mi away/774 ft/105 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Five Points 7.6 NEAL-CB-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.6 mi away/752 ft/127 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Water Tr PltLFYA1
At a cooperative observer's station/9.0 mi away/722 ft/157 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 28.2 mi from Five Points, Alabama. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:56 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 4,900 ft, broken at 6,000 ft; the ceiling is 6,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
84.0 F with a dew point of 62.0 F, 48 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 5,100 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 4,900 ft.
From the southwest (220 degrees) at 9 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 18 mph.
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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.