Elk River Near Pelham03578000
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.5 mi away/981 ft/32 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 15 degrees cooler: a high of 60° after 75° today.
Now. Pelham is 64° and mostly clear at 4 AM. The dew point is 62°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the south-southwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 73° by 10 AM. Tonight falls to about 46° by 4 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 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 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. 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 10:15 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 Pelham, Tennessee.
Air quality
Index 75, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Chattanooga (TN), 34 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 65, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM: the index from smoke stays at 33 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 10 miles Sat 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Pelham, TennesseeReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Pelham, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Elk River Near Pelham03578000
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.5 mi away/981 ft/32 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
WinchesterBGF
At an airfield/15.0 mi away/971 ft/42 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW9921CW9921
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.0 mi away/1,060 ft/47 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Eastview FarmS2077
At a soil climate station/22.2 mi away/1,054 ft/41 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Pelham 2.2 NETN-GY-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.1 mi away/1,005 ft/8 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MonteagleMTET1
At a cooperative observer's station/5.0 mi away/1,913 ft/900 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 15.0 mi from Pelham, Tennessee. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 5,000 ft; visibility 6 mi.
62.6 F with a dew point of 62.6 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 5,000 ft.
Calm.
The full report of Winchester, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Monteagle (MTET1), 5.0 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 16:15. measured daily
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.