SylacaugaSCD
At an airfield/2.7 mi away/559 ft/45 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 19 degrees cooler: a high of 66° after 85° today.
Now. Mignon is 64° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 62°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 84° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° 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. Air quality is moderate (index 80): 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 66°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:11 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:23 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 AM in Mignon, Alabama.
Air quality
Index 80, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Birmingham (AL), 35 miles off.
Moderate each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 70, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 44 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Mignon, AlabamaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Mignon, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
SylacaugaSCD
At an airfield/2.7 mi away/559 ft/45 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW8167DW8167
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.8 mi away/423 ft/91 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
TalladegaTLDA1
At a river or reservoir gauge/20.5 mi away/643 ft/129 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Talladega 10 NNE73803
At a climate reference station/29.2 mi away/525 ft/11 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Sylacauga 2.8 NNEAL-CS-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.3 mi away/541 ft/27 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Water PlantSCGA1
At a cooperative observer's station/3.2 mi away/541 ft/27 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 2.7 mi from Mignon, Alabama. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 9 mi.
62.6 F with a dew point of 62.6 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground.
Calm.
The full report of Sylacauga, 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.