Citizen station GW6161GW6161
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.7 mi away/645 ft/33 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 16 degrees cooler: a high of 63° after 79° today.
Now. Hartselle is 68° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the south-southwest at 1 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 76° by 11 AM. Tonight falls to about 46° 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 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour. Air quality is moderate (index 58): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 78°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 63°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:12 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:22 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 12:00 AM in Hartselle, Alabama.
Air quality
Index 58, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Huntsville (AL), 20 miles off.
Moderate each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 56, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 33 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Hartselle, AlabamaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Hartselle, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Citizen station GW6161GW6161
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.7 mi away/645 ft/33 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
CullmanCMD
At an airfield/12.6 mi away/948 ft/270 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Stanley Farm ScanSTAA1
On a farm or research station/14.8 mi away/635 ft/43 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Stanley FarmS2056
At a soil climate station/14.8 mi away/635 ft/43 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Cullman 3 ENE63867
At a climate reference station/19.2 mi away/800 ft/122 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Hartselle 0.8 WSWAL-MG-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/666 ft/12 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Decatur 5 SEDCTA1
At a cooperative observer's station/8.3 mi away/564 ft/114 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.6 mi from Hartselle, Alabama. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:35 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
66.2 F with a dew point of 64.4 F, 94 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 400 ft up.
Calm.
The full report of Cullman, 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.