At an airfield/15.0 mi away/633 ft/121 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 19 degrees cooler: a high of 66° after 85° today.
Now. Rockford is 65° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 83° 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 66): 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 10:24 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 12:00 AM in Rockford, Alabama.
Air quality
Index 66, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Montgomery (AL), 46 miles off.
Yesterday measured 68, moderate.
Smoke near the ground peaks at index 73, moderate, Fri 12 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 9 miles Fri 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Rockford, AlabamaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Rockford, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 15.0 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
At an airfield/15.0 mi away/633 ft/121 ft below here
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Clanton 2 NE63891
At a climate reference station/22.9 mi away/584 ft/170 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Clanton-Chilton County AirportCLXA1
At an airfield/22.9 mi away/581 ft/173 ft below here
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Citizen station DW8167DW8167
In a volunteer observer's own ground/26.8 mi away/423 ft/331 ft below here
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Morris FarmsS2178
At a soil climate station/37.6 mi away/220 ft/534 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Clanton 9.7 ESEAL-CH-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.1 mi away/318 ft/436 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Alexander CityALXA1
At a cooperative observer's station/16.2 mi away/735 ft/19 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 15.0 mi from Rockford, Alabama. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud reported; visibility 4 mi.
62.6 F with a dew point of 62.6 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 1 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Alexander City, 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.