Citizen station KQ5S-13KQ5S-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.0 mi away/1,018 ft/53 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 19 degrees cooler: a high of 62° after 81° today.
Now. Sardis City is 63° and clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the southwest at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 79° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 46° 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.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 62°. 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 10:20 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 20 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Sardis City, Alabama.
Air quality
Index 10, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Gadsden (AL), 10 miles off.
Yesterday measured 19, good.
Smoke near the ground peaks at index 71, moderate, Fri 4 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Sardis City, AlabamaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Sardis City, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.3 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Citizen station KQ5S-13KQ5S-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.0 mi away/1,018 ft/53 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
AlbertvilleBFZ
At an airfield/8.6 mi away/1,040 ft/31 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Gadsden 19 N63857
At a climate reference station/11.5 mi away/1,152 ft/81 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Gadsden 19 NSMCA1
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.6 mi away/1,148 ft/77 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
HodgesS2055
At a soil climate station/19.0 mi away/730 ft/341 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
BoazBOZA1
At a cooperative observer's station/3.3 mi away/1,082 ft/11 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Boaz 4.8 EAL-DK-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.3 mi away/1,070 ft/1 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.6 mi from Sardis City, Alabama. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 3,600 ft, broken at 4,200 ft; the ceiling is 3,600 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
66.2 F with a dew point of 64.4 F, 94 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 400 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 3,600 ft.
From the southwest (220 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Albertville, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Boaz (BOZA1), 3.3 miles from here, read 15 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.