West Point Lake Near West Point02339400
At a river or reservoir gauge/17.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 18 degrees cooler: a high of 66° after 84° today.
Now. Rock Mills is 62° and partly cloudy at 7 AM. The dew point is 59°, so the air feels a little humid. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 82° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° 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 56): 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 Sunday, near 65°. 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 10:20 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 22 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 7:00 AM in Rock Mills, Alabama.
Air quality
Index 56, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Columbus-Phenix City - GA and AL (GA), 48 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 39 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 6 miles Fri 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Rock Mills, AlabamaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Rock Mills, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
West Point Lake Near West Point02339400
At a river or reservoir gauge/17.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
WedoweeS2175
At a soil climate station/17.8 mi away/934 ft/157 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Citizen station GW6974GW6974
In a volunteer observer's own ground/28.8 mi away/626 ft/151 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/38.4 mi away/774 ft/3 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Rock MillsRKMA1
At a cooperative observer's station/0.1 mi away/761 ft/16 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Roanoke 4.2 NNEAL-RN-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.6 mi away/830 ft/53 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 38.4 mi from Rock Mills, Alabama. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 6:56 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
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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.