34.3440, -86.4390

1. Fri1 AM70°5 mph
2. 2 AM69°5 mph
3. 3 AM69°5 mph
4. 4 AM68°3 mph
5. 5 AM68°3 mph
6. 6 AM67°3 mph
7. 7 AM67°1%3 mph
8. 8 AM70°2%3 mph
9. 9 AM73°3%3 mph
10. 10 AM79°5%5 mph
11. 11 AM82°10%5 mph
12. 12 PM85°10%5 mph
13. 1 PM86°9%5 mph
14. 2 PM86°8%3 mph
15. 3 PM87°8%2 mph
16. 4 PM86°9%2 mph
17. 5 PM84°13%2 mph
18. 6 PM82°14%2 mph
19. 7 PM76°18%2 mph
20. 8 PM72°9%2 mph
21. 9 PM71°8%2 mph
22. 10 PM70°7%2 mph
23. 11 PM70°7%1 mph
24. Sat12 AM69°9%1 mph
25. 1 AM69°8%1 mph
26. 2 AM69°8%1 mph
27. 3 AM69°11%1 mph
28. 4 AM69°10%1 mph
29. 5 AM68°9%1 mph
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31. 7 AM67°9%1 mph
32. 8 AM70°8%1 mph
33. 9 AM72°5%2 mph
34. 10 AM76°4%2 mph
35. 11 AM79°5%1 mph
36. 12 PM81°9%2 mph
37. 1 PM82°39%2 mph
38. 2 PM82°41%2 mph
39. 3 PM83°52%2 mph
40. 4 PM81°56%2 mph
41. 5 PM79°41%2 mph
42. 6 PM78°44%2 mph
43. 7 PM73°53%2 mph
44. 8 PM71°53%2 mph
45. 9 PM70°53%2 mph
46. 10 PM70°53%2 mph
47. 11 PM70°53%2 mph
48. Sun12 AM69°53%2 mph

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1. TodayOct 288°67°Mostly Sunny18%wind 5 mph · gusts 15 mph
2. SatOct 384°67°Partly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms56%0.18 inwind 2 mph · gusts 9 mph
3. SunOct 476°62°Showers And Thunderstorms77%1.05 inwind 3 mph · gusts 12 mph
4. MonOct 580°54°Slight Chance Rain Showers29%0.10 inwind 8 mph · gusts 18 mph
5. TueOct 678°53°Sunny6%wind 8 mph · gusts 18 mph
6. WedOct 776°51°Sunny4%wind 6 mph · gusts 18 mph
7. ThuOct 880°51°Sunny4%wind 5 mph · gusts 10 mph
8. FriOct 982°56°12%wind 5 mph · gusts 12 mph
9. SatOct 1079°57°National Blend19%0.05 inwind 7 mph · gusts 15 mph
10. SunOct 1179°57°National Blend22%0.57 inwind 7 mph · gusts 14 mph
11. MonOct 12~75°66°Model mean0.85 in
12. TueOct 13~77°61°Model mean
13. WedOct 14~78°56°Model mean
14. ThuOct 15~79°57°Model mean
15. FriOct 16~73°60°Model mean
16. SatOct 17~80°64°Model mean

• Feels like70°
• WindSSE 5 mphgusts 15 mph
• Radar over this pointno reading
• Humidity84%
• Dew point65°
• Pressure—
• UV index—
• Air quality—
• Visibility10 mi
• Sunrise and sunsetSunrise · Sunset · not yet up
• Moonrise10:56 PMMoonset 1:19 PM
• Moon phaseWaning gibbous64% lit

NOAA’s weighted blend of every model it runs, to eleven days, with the chances the grid above does not carry. Where the local office’s grid reaches, its figure sits beneath the blend’s; where it does not, the blend stands alone.

1. TodayOct 288°68°NWS grid 88° / 67°rain 23%thunder 27%0.01 inwind 5 mph · gusts 15 mph
2. SatOct 385°68°NWS grid 84° / 67°rain 68%thunder 32%0.08 inwind 3 mph · gusts 9 mph
3. SunOct 476°61°NWS grid 76° / 62°rain 76%thunder 21%1.56 inwind 5 mph · gusts 15 mph
4. MonOct 579°55°NWS grid 80° / 54°rain 18%thunder 14%0.04 inwind 8 mph · gusts 16 mph
5. TueOct 677°53°NWS grid 78° / 53°rain 5%wind 8 mph · gusts 20 mph
6. WedOct 774°52°NWS grid 76° / 51°rain 5%wind 7 mph · gusts 18 mph
7. ThuOct 879°53°NWS grid 80° / 51°rain 2%wind 3 mph · gusts 9 mph
8. FriOct 981°55°NWS grid 82° / 56°rain 7%0.02 inwind 6 mph · gusts 13 mph
9. SatOct 1079°57°Beyond the NWS gridrain 19%0.05 inwind 7 mph · gusts 15 mph
10. SunOct 1179°57°Beyond the NWS gridrain 22%0.57 inwind 7 mph · gusts 14 mph
11. MonOct 1278°—Beyond the NWS gridrain 22%wind 6 mph · gusts 14 mph

Each line is one model’s own forecast at its own grid cell: three kilometers for HRRR, a quarter of a degree for the global models, which can sit a few hundred meters above or below the town. Where they agree the forecast is settled; where they part is where it is not.

NWS gridBlendHRRRGFSGEFS ± spreadECMWFECMWF AI

A ~ marks a high or low read from six-hourly steps, which miss the true extreme by a degree or two.

ECMWF ensemble meteogram

10 daysTemperature plume

No forecast has skill day by day past about two weeks, and this page does not print one. Where the models stop, the calendar takes over: the 1991 to 2020 normal for each date, the record high and low ever set on it, and where the Climate Prediction Center leans warm, cool, wet or dry over the coming weeks, the month and the season. A site that shows a high for a date three months out is showing you this normal with a wobble.

The forecast reaches Sat Oct 17, from the NWS grid, then the National Blend, then the mean of the global models. Beyond it the lines are the calendar.

Forecast high and lowNormal high and lowRecord high and low

None of these is a measurement. Each is a rating of the forecast ahead, and of what is happening at the point right now, against what the activity or the ailment is known to mind, and each names the figure that decided it. An ailment or a pest is rated as a risk, low to extreme; an activity, a chore or a journey as a condition, poor to ideal.

Each rating says which span it is for: the rest of today’s daylight, tonight, or the next 24 hours.

Tonight has no dark, clear hour without a bright moon in this forecast. Rated poor.

Dark is the sun 18 degrees below the horizon; where it never gets that low, 12 degrees, marked nautical. Clear is sky cover of 20% or less. A bright moon is one above the horizon with a quarter or more of its disc lit. Transparency in the table is estimated from surface humidity (70% and 85% mark fair and poor) and visibility, since the forecast carries no haze or high cloud moisture. Seeing and transparency by hour, where shown, are Environment and Climate Change Canada’s astronomy forecast (regional model; seeing from cloud, wind shear, turbulence near the ground and the surface temperature trend; transparency from the moisture through the whole air column), under the Open Government Licence - Canada. Dew is the air within 2 °C of its dew point. Excellent is four or more clear moonless hours with good transparency; good is three; fair is one, or two clear hours.

Golden hour is the sun between 6 degrees above the horizon and 4 degrees below it; blue hour is the sun between 4 and 6 degrees below. These are the definitions timeanddate.com and PhotoPills use. Directions are degrees clockwise from true north, where the sun’s upper edge and the moon’s center cross a flat horizon; hills and buildings change both. None means the sun does not reach that height on the day; all day means it stays inside the band.

This hour: no-fly (gusts near or over your limit, low cloud limits height (107.51), wind at 400 ft near or over your limit, night: lighting and night training required (107.29)). No stretch of two good hours in the next three days.

Today: civil twilight for Part 107 6:11 AM to sunrise 6:41 AM, and sunset 6:28 PM to 6:58 PM. Anti-collision lighting is required in those minutes and at night.

Good Caution No-fly

Flight restrictions nearby

Reading the FAA’s temporary flight restrictions.

Flight restrictions on the map. TFRs are not the whole picture: controlled airspace around airports needs LAANC authorization. Check the FAA’s B4UFLY.

Wind at 400 ft is estimated from the 10 m forecast by the power law, with exponents for each Pasquill stability class (Irwin 1979, rural, as in EPA dispersion models; the class from wind, sun height and cloud, after Turner 1970); gusts keep the ground gust’s margin. Caution from three quarters of your limit; the default 24 mph is the wind resistance printed for common sub-250 g drones. 14 CFR 107.51: “The minimum flight visibility, as observed from the location of the control station must be no less than 3 statute miles” and at least “500 feet below the cloud”. 14 CFR 107.29: “No person may operate a small unmanned aircraft system during periods of civil twilight unless the small unmanned aircraft has lighted anti-collision lighting visible for at least 3 statute miles”; civil twilight is the 30 minutes before sunrise and after sunset, in Alaska the Air Almanac’s. Kp: SWPC’s scales say satellite navigation problems may occur at G3 (Kp 7) and navigation is “degraded for hours” at G4 (Kp 8); Kp 5 is the typical app warning. Typical limits, not rules: rain chance 30% caution and 60% no-fly, thunder 10% and 20%, below 0 °C caution and −10 °C no-fly, over 40 °C caution. Your drone’s manual and the airspace come first.

Hours fit for spraying, and the days dry enough for fieldwork and hay, read from this forecast’s wind, gusts, humidity, temperature and rain.

Spraying windows

• Fri 10 AM to 3 PM 5 hours, every hour within the rules
• Mon 11 AM to 5 PM 6 hours, every hour within the rules
• Tue 2 PM to 9 PM 7 hours, every hour within the rules
• Wed 8 AM to 7 PM 11 hours, every hour within the rules
• Thu 9 AM to 6 PM 9 hours, some with delta T between 8 and 10 °C
• Fri 9 AM to 4 PM 7 hours, some with delta T between 8 and 10 °C

Good Marginal No

Field days

Spraying: sustained wind 3 to 10 mph, the range US extension services and most labels give; gusts no more than 15 mph (this page’s limit); delta T (air minus wet-bulb temperature) 2 to 8 °C preferred and 8 to 10 °C marginal, from GRDC guidance, with the wet bulb by Stull’s formula; no hour at a 30% chance of rain or 0.25 mm forecast during the rain-free time. Follow the product label, which overrides all of this. Field days: dry is no daytime hour at a 30% chance and under 1 mm all day, wet is 6 mm (0.25 in) or more; soil moisture is not in the forecast, so ground still wet from earlier rain is not accounted for. Hay drying marks a dry day with humidity down to 50% and a breeze of 5 mph or more.

The best-rated day this week is Thursday, rated good.

Periods in bold fall within an hour of sunrise or sunset. The weather’s side is the fishing index

Major periods are two hours centered on the moon’s passage overhead and underfoot; minor periods are one hour centered on moonrise and moonset: the conventional durations of John Alden Knight’s solunar tables (1936). The rating is this site’s: one point to start, two more within a day and a half of a new or full moon (one more within three and a half days), and one more when a period falls within an hour of sunrise or sunset. The theory has mixed support in fisheries research; the times are exact astronomy.

1. Overnight67° · SSE 5 mph

   Partly cloudy, with a low around 67. South southeast wind around 5 mph.

2. Friday88° · 13% · S 0–5 mph

   Mostly sunny, with a high near 88. South wind 0 to 5 mph.

3. Friday Night67° · 18% · 0 mph

   A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms between 7pm and 8pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 67. Southeast wind around 0 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

4. Saturday84° · 56% · 0 mph

   A chance of showers and thunderstorms between 1pm and 4pm, then showers and thunderstorms likely between 4pm and 5pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 84. Southeast wind around 0 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

5. Saturday Night67° · 56% · 0 mph

   A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 7pm, then showers and thunderstorms likely. Cloudy, with a low around 67. East wind around 0 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

6. Sunday76° · 77% · ENE 0–5 mph

   Showers and thunderstorms. Cloudy, with a high near 76. Chance of precipitation is 80%.

7. Sunday Night62° · 72% · NNE 0–5 mph

   Showers and thunderstorms likely. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 62. Chance of precipitation is 70%.

8. Monday80° · 20% · NNE 5–10 mph

   A slight chance of rain showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 80. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

9. Monday Night54° · 20% · NE 5 mph

   A slight chance of rain showers before 7pm. Mostly clear, with a low around 54. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

10. Tuesday78° · 6% · E 5–10 mph

    Sunny, with a high near 78.

11. Tuesday Night53° · 6% · ESE 5 mph

    Mostly clear, with a low around 53.

12. Wednesday76° · 4% · E 5 mph

    Sunny, with a high near 76.

13. Wednesday Night51° · 4% · ESE 0–5 mph

    Mostly clear, with a low around 51.

14. Thursday80° · 4% · ENE 0–5 mph

    Sunny, with a high near 80.

Written by the forecaster on duty for their own colleagues and for anyone who wants to know why the forecast says what it says. It is not edited for the public, so it uses the office’s shorthand; it is also the most honest thing any weather service publishes.

The national centers each publish a judgment the local grid does not carry. Read here at this exact coordinate.

Reading the outlooks…

The last spring freeze (32°F) usually comes around March 19 and the first fall freeze around November 18: a growing season of about 244 days.

One fall in ten brings a freeze by November 2; one spring in ten still has one after April 5.

Climate of 34.34, -86.44: normals, records and every month

The forecast office edits about sixty fields for every cell of its grid. The common ones are above; these are the rest, as the daily extreme, for anyone who needs the mixing height, the fire danger or the swell.

Each forecast day against the same calendar date at the nearest long-record station: the 1991 to 2020 normal, and the record high and low with the year they were set.