Temperature
65 F at 12 AM; 85 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 57 F at its coolest, 4 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 65F
- 12 AM
- Highest
- 85F
- 2 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 57F
- 4 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/North Carolina/Asheville Regional Airport
Asheville Regional Airport, North Carolina
Medium airport in Henderson County, North Carolina65°
82°/58°
Clear·
Feels like 65°·Calm 0 mph SW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 27 degrees cooler: a high of 55° after 82° today.
Now. Asheville Regional Airport is 65° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 80° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 43° by 8 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 Tuesday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:54 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:01 PM. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. 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.
0UV Low
31Air quality
93%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
65feels65
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8258
10%
18mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
5542
18%
19mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
5934
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
6536
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
7139
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
7142
UV 7
Thu
Oct 22
7142
UV 6
65°
82°58°
55°42°
59°34°
65°36°
71°39°
71°42°
71°42°
As of 1:00 AM in Asheville Regional Airport, North Carolina.
Air quality
The air at Asheville Regional Airport
Index 31, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Buncombe County (NC), 11 miles off.
31Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)31Good11.8 mi
- Ozone8Good5 ppb5.3 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)10Good11.8 mi
The days ahead
Highest 67, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 46, good.
GoodModerate
- 46YesterdayOct 15
- 67TodayOct 16
- 35SatOct 17
- 37SunOct 18
Smoke, the next 44 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Asheville Regional Airport
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Asheville Regional Airport, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- AVL
- ICAO
- KAVL
- IATA
- AVL
- Field elevation
- 2,165 ft
- Serves
- Asheville
- Kind
- Medium airport
- Scheduled service
- Yes
- Its own instrument
- AVL
- Wind now
- Calm, read 16 Oct, 00:54
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 / 35 | 8,002 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 160° / 340° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Asheville_Municipal_(ASOS) (AVL), Asheville Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 63 F, the air 93% saturated; the humidity ran from 48% at 3 PM Thursday to 99% at 5 AM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 63F
- 12 AM
- Humidity now
- 93%
- Humidity, range
- 48 to 99%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
1 mph from the south southeast at 12 AM; at its strongest 8 mph, 5 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
- Now
- 1mph
- from the south southeast
- Strongest
- 8mph
- 5 PM Thursday
- Highest gust
- -
- none reported
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.13 inHg at 12 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.06 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.13inHg
- 12 AM
- 3 hours
- -0.02inHg
- steady
- 24 hours
- -0.06inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 0.5 miles at 4 AM Thursday, under a mile for 1 hour; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 0.5mi
- 4 AM Thursday
- Hours under a mile
- 1
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Cloud base
The lowest cloud base came down to 100 ft at 2 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 7 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 100ft
- 2 AM Thursday
- Hours with a base reported
- 7
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Wettest hour
- -
- Hours with some
- 0
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Asheville Regional Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/0.3 mi away/2,169 ft/4 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Backlund Hort. Nr FletcherFLTN7
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.4 mi away/2,067 ft/98 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Asheville 13 S53878
At a climate reference station/1.8 mi away/2,103 ft/62 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Fletcher 1.2 WSWNC-HN-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/2,116 ft/49 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Fletcher 3 WFLEN7
At a cooperative observer's station/1.1 mi away/2,047 ft/118 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in North Carolina
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Asheville Regional Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Fletchertown, 2 mi
- Avery Creekcommunity, 2 mi
- Royal Pinescommunity, 4 mi
- Mills Rivertown, 4 mi
- Mountain Homecommunity, 5 mi
- Hoopers Creekcommunity, 6 mi
- Horse Shoecommunity, 6 mi
- Bent Creekcommunity, 6 mi
- Biltmore Foresttown, 7 mi
- Balfourcommunity, 7 mi
- Fruitlandcommunity, 8 mi
- Laurel Parktown, 9 mi
Airports near Asheville Regional Airport
- Rutherford County Marchman FieldFQD, 34 mi
- Jackson County Airport24A, 39 mi
- Macon County Airport1A5, 52 mi
- Shelby-Cleveland County Regional AirportEHO, 54 mi
- Foothills Regional AirportMRN, 59 mi
- Hickory Regional AirportHKY, 68 mi
- Western Carolina Regional AirportRHP, 76 mi
- Lincolnton Lincoln County Regional AirportIPJ, 78 mi