Valley Head Hcn-MVHXA1
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.1 mi away/1,024 ft/42 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 19 degrees cooler: a high of 61° after 80° today.
Now. Hammondville is 61° and partly cloudy at 3 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the west-southwest at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 79° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 46° 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. Air quality is moderate (index 54): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 61°. 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 10:16 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 19 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Hammondville, Alabama.
Air quality
Index 54, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Rome (GA), 28 miles off.
Yesterday measured 47, good.
Smoke near the ground peaks at index 62, moderate, Fri 6 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Hammondville, AlabamaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Hammondville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.1 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Valley Head Hcn-MVHXA1
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.1 mi away/1,024 ft/42 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Valley Head 1 SSW63862
At a climate reference station/1.6 mi away/1,020 ft/38 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Fort_Payne4A9
At an airfield/8.8 mi away/876 ft/106 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW7110GW7110
In a volunteer observer's own ground/23.5 mi away/640 ft/342 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
HodgesS2055
At a soil climate station/31.8 mi away/730 ft/252 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Valley Head Hcn-MVHXA1
At a cooperative observer's station/1.1 mi away/1,024 ft/42 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Fort Payne 3.6 ENEAL-DK-22
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.3 mi away/1,607 ft/625 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.8 mi from Hammondville, Alabama. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:35 AM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 7 mi.
Calm.
At 876 ft above sea level, 3 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 28.99 inHg and the temperature at 55.9 F; the station's altimeter setting of 30.08 inHg means its barometer reads 29.14 inHg.
The full report of Fort_Payne, in 5 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.