Temperature
72 F at 12 AM; 89 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 62 F at its coolest, 7 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 72F
- 12 AM
- Highest
- 89F
- 3 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 62F
- 7 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/North Carolina/Columbus County Municipal Airport
Columbus County Municipal Airport, North Carolina
Small airport in Columbus County, North Carolina71°
86°/63°
Clear·
Feels like 71°·Light air 4 mph SSW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 21 degrees cooler: a high of 65° after 86° today.
Now. Columbus County Municipal Airport is 71° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 70°, so the air feels oppressive. Light air from the south-southwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 85° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 59° 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 Wednesday, near 71°, and the coolest Sunday, near 61°. Rain is likely tomorrow (58%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:40 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:49 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 20 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
33Air quality
94%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
71feels71
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8663
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6556
58%
16mph
Sun
Oct 18
6143
27%
16mph
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
6646
12%
15mph
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
7048
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
7149
UV 6
Thu
Oct 22
7150
mostly clear day
71°
86°63°
65°56°
61°43°
66°46°
70°48°
71°49°
71°50°
As of 12:00 AM in Columbus County Municipal Airport, North Carolina.
Air quality
The air at Columbus County Municipal Airport
Index 33, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Myrtle Beach-Conway (SC), 36 miles off.
33Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)32Good-
- Ozone33Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 48, good.
GoodModerate
- 48YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 45 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 28 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Columbus County Municipal Airport
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. 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 Columbus County Municipal Airport, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 5 miles Sat 9 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- CPC
- ICAO
- KCPC
- IATA
- -
- Field elevation
- 99 ft
- Serves
- Whiteville
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- CPC
- Wind now
- From 190° at 5 mph, read 16 Oct, 00:15
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06 / 24 | 5,500 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 42° / 222° | 4 mph head, on 24 | 3 mph from the left |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Columbus_Cnty_Muni_Arpt (CPC), Columbus County Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 70 F, the air 94% saturated; the humidity ran from 44% at 4 PM Thursday to 98% at 1 AM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 70F
- 12 AM
- Humidity now
- 94%
- Humidity, range
- 44 to 98%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
5 mph from the south at 12 AM; at its strongest 8 mph, 9 AM Thursday, and no gust reported.
- Now
- 5mph
- from the south
- Strongest
- 8mph
- 9 AM Thursday
- Highest gust
- -
- none reported
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.11 inHg at 12 AM, steady over 3 hours; the same as a day before.
- Now
- 30.11inHg
- 12 AM
- 3 hours
- -0.01inHg
- steady
- 24 hours
- +0.00inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 1 miles at 7 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 1mi
- 7 AM Thursday
- Hours under a mile
- 0
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
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 4 instruments nearest Columbus County Municipal Airport, 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 now2 instruments
At an airfield/0.2 mi away/98 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
WhitevilleWHIN7
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.4 mi away/52 ft/47 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Whiteville 0.3 SSENC-CL-29
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.7 mi away/66 ft/33 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Whiteville 7 NWWHTN7
At a cooperative observer's station/10.4 mi away/82 ft/17 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 Columbus County Municipal Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Brunswicktown, under 1 mi
- Whitevillecity, 4 mi
- Hallsborocommunity, 7 mi
- Chadbourntown, 7 mi
- Lake Waccamawtown, 12 mi
- Tabor Citytown, 13 mi
- Cerro Gordotown, 13 mi
- Evergreencommunity, 15 mi
- Clarktontown, 15 mi
- Boardmantown, 18 mi
- Fair Blufftown, 18 mi
- Boltontown, 18 mi
Airports near Columbus County Municipal Airport
- Curtis L Brown Jr FieldEYF, 24 mi
- Lumberton Regional AirportLBT, 30 mi
- Cape Fear Regional Jetport / Howie Franklin Field AirportSUT, 44 mi
- Wilmington International AirportILM, 46 mi
- Fayetteville Regional Airport - Grannis FieldFAY, 51 mi
- Henderson FieldACZ, 51 mi
- Laurinburg Maxton AirportMEB, 52 mi
- Sampson County AirportCTZ, 52 mi