In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.7 mi away/736 ft/122 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Now. Killen is 49° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northwest at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 62° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 40° 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 Friday, near 81°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 69°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:13 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 11:21 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 17 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Killen, Alabama.
Air quality
Index 0, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Loretto (TN), 16 miles off.
Yesterday measured 52, moderate.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Sat 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Killen, AlabamaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Killen, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.2 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.7 mi away/736 ft/122 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Muscle Shoals 2 N63894
At a climate reference station/8.5 mi away/530 ft/84 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Al Muscle Shoals 2 NMSXA1
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.7 mi away/551 ft/63 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/9.0 mi away/551 ft/63 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Isbell FarmsS2173
At a soil climate station/26.1 mi away/603 ft/11 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Killen 2.1 ENEAL-LD-37
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.2 mi away/674 ft/60 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Al Muscle Shoals 2 NMSXA1
At a cooperative observer's station/8.7 mi away/551 ft/63 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 9.0 mi from Killen, Alabama. From its report of Oct 17, 2026, 12:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
49.0 F with a dew point of 42.0 F, 77 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,600 ft up.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 9 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale.
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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.