Scottsburo4A6
At an airfield/12.4 mi away/650 ft/729 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 17 degrees cooler: a high of 60° after 77° today.
Now. Pleasant Groves is 67° and clear at 9 AM. The dew point is 67°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the west-southwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 73° by 11 AM. Tonight falls to about 45° by 3 AM, with some cloud. 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 69): 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 60°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:09 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:18 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 day is 11 hours 19 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 AM in Pleasant Groves, Alabama.
Air quality
Index 69, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Huntsville (AL), 27 miles off.
Moderate each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 59, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 8 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Pleasant Groves, AlabamaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Pleasant Groves, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.0 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Scottsburo4A6
At an airfield/12.4 mi away/650 ft/729 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Scottsboro Municipal Airport Hcn-MSCXA1
At an airfield/12.7 mi away/617 ft/762 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW7110GW7110
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.8 mi away/640 ft/739 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Scottsboro 2 NE63896
At a climate reference station/13.3 mi away/636 ft/743 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Aamu-JtgS2057
At a soil climate station/19.2 mi away/860 ft/519 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Trenton 0.1 ENEAL-JC-26
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/673 ft/706 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ScottsboroSCTA1
At a cooperative observer's station/10.2 mi away/604 ft/775 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.4 mi from Pleasant Groves, Alabama. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 9:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 9 mi.
73.4 F with a dew point of 69.8 F, 89 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 800 ft up.
Calm.
The full report of Scottsburo, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Scottsboro (SCTA1), 10.2 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.