Valley Head 1 SSW63862
At a climate reference station/1.8 mi away/1,020 ft/655 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Coming up. Tomorrow is 20 degrees cooler: a high of 58° after 78° today.
Now. Mentone is 63° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the southwest at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 76° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 44° 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 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. 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 20 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Mentone, Alabama.
Air quality
Index 8, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Rome (GA), 26 miles off.
Yesterday measured 84, moderate.
Smoke near the ground peaks at index 62, moderate, Fri 6 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. 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 Mentone, AlabamaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Mentone, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.8 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Valley Head 1 SSW63862
At a climate reference station/1.8 mi away/1,020 ft/655 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Valley Head Hcn-MVHXA1
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.0 mi away/1,024 ft/651 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Fort_Payne4A9
At an airfield/10.5 mi away/876 ft/799 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW7110GW7110
In a volunteer observer's own ground/26.2 mi away/640 ft/1,035 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
HodgesS2055
At a soil climate station/34.4 mi away/730 ft/945 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Valley HeadVYHA1
At a cooperative observer's station/1.8 mi away/1,047 ft/628 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Fort Payne 3.6 ENEAL-DK-22
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.7 mi away/1,607 ft/68 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 10.5 mi from Mentone, Alabama. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM 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.