Elk River Near Pelham03578000
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.2 mi away/981 ft/932 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 17 degrees cooler: a high of 57° after 74° today.
Now. Gruetli-Laager is 63° and clear at 4 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the southwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 71° by 10 AM. Tonight falls to about 45° by 2 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 75): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:06 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:14 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 18 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Gruetli-Laager, Tennessee.
Air quality
Index 75, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Chattanooga (TN), 26 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 65, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Gruetli-Laager, TennesseeReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Gruetli-Laager, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Elk River Near Pelham03578000
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.2 mi away/981 ft/932 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mc MinnvilleRNC
At an airfield/25.9 mi away/1,014 ft/899 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW0392GW0392
In a volunteer observer's own ground/26.3 mi away/686 ft/1,227 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Eastview FarmS2077
At a soil climate station/36.2 mi away/1,054 ft/859 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Gruetli-Laager 1.3 ETN-GY-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/1,910 ft/3 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Big Ck Utility DistCOAT1
At a cooperative observer's station/4.7 mi away/1,837 ft/76 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 25.9 mi from Gruetli-Laager, Tennessee. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
66.2 F with a dew point of 62.6 F, 88 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 800 ft up.
From the southwest (220 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Mc Minnville, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.