Mcdonald Creek At Patton Road Nr Huntsville03575980
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.2 mi away/580 ft/64 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Redstone Arsenal, Alabama
Community in Madison County, Alabama67°
81°/63°
Clear·
Feels like 67°·Light air 1 mph SSW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 18 degrees cooler: a high of 63° after 81° today.
Now. Redstone Arsenal is 67° and clear at 2 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 77° by 11 AM. Tonight falls to about 48° by 5 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 60): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 63°. 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 10:20 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.
0UV Low
60Air quality
86%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
67feels67
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8163
19%
17mph
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
6347
13%
16mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6841
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7143
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7545
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7847
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7949
overcast
67°
81°63°
63°47°
68°41°
71°43°
75°45°
78°47°
79°49°
As of 2:00 AM in Redstone Arsenal, Alabama.
Air quality
The air at Redstone Arsenal
Index 60, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Huntsville (AL), 5 miles off.
60Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)60Moderate-
- Ozone20Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)19Good-
The days ahead
Moderate each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 59, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 59YesterdayOct 15
- 53TodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 42 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 33 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Redstone Arsenal
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Redstone Arsenal, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Redstone Arsenal, AlabamaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Redstone Arsenal, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Rank317of 798
At an airfield/2.9 mi away/686 ft/42 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW6479GW6479
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.5 mi away/577 ft/67 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Aamu-JtgS2057
At a soil climate station/7.7 mi away/860 ft/216 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Cullman 3 ENE63867
At a climate reference station/36.4 mi away/800 ft/156 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Huntsville 3.0 SW (Botanical Garden)AL-MD-116
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/670 ft/26 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Madison 2 NMAFA1
At a cooperative observer's station/6.0 mi away/764 ft/120 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Redstone Arsenal, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 2.9 mi from Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
68.4 F with a dew point of 63.7 F, 85 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,100 ft up.
The wind
Calm.
The full report of Redstone Arsenal, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Madison 2 N (MAFA1), 6.0 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Alabama
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Redstone Arsenal
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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- Harvestcommunity, 12 mi
- Mooresvilletown, 14 mi
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- New Hopecity, 17 mi
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