Weather
Archive →Every day the FIVEMILE weather station has reported, and under it the official Birmingham record, kept at the airport since 1930. The station says what the weather did here. The long record says whether that was anything out of the ordinary.
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The long record
Where these numbers come from
Everything from here down is the Birmingham airport, not here
Our station's log on this page starts on January 1, 2026. The official weather record for Birmingham goes back to 1930 and is kept at the airport, southeast of the three towns. It is the right record for knowing what a normal September looks like, and it is what every normal, record, and ranking below is measured against.
It is not a reading from here. A storm can soak the airport and miss the creek, or the other way around, and the temperatures there are not ours.
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Season against season
Every year on file
The record
Where this comes from The first section is the FIVEMILE weather station, a full day to a row. It reports for all three towns, because one rain gauge on this ground is closer to the truth here than a regional model is, and today is not in the table because today is not over; it is on the almanac. Everything under the long record heading is the official record the National Weather Service in Birmingham keeps at the airport, station USW00013876. Normals are NOAA's official normals for 1991 to 2020, and a year before 1991 is measured against them all the same. A trace of rain counts as none, the way an official total counts it. The newest days there are preliminary and can still be corrected. Usual, on the grid, means the middle of every year on file for that month; normal means NOAA's figure. Seasons are whole months, the way the weather service counts them, and winter runs from December into the new year.