Temperature
65 F at 12 AM; 90 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 64 F at its coolest, 7 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 65F
- 12 AM
- Highest
- 90F
- 3 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 64F
- 7 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/North Carolina/Duplin County Airport
Coming up. Tomorrow is 24 degrees cooler: a high of 62° after 86° today.
Now. Duplin County Airport is 66° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 86° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 58° 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 70°, and the coolest Sunday, near 60°. Rain is likely tomorrow (68%). Rain is possible Sunday (35%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:36 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:43 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 19 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Duplin County Airport, North Carolina.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Lenoir County (NC), 25 miles off.
Highest 58, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 47, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 44 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.1 miles Fri 5 AM, under a mile for 1 hour.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 / 23 | 6,003 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 36° / 216° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from Kenansville/Duplin_County (DPL), Duplin County Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
65 F at 12 AM; 90 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 64 F at its coolest, 7 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 64 F, the air 98% saturated; the humidity ran from 43% at 3 PM Thursday to 100% at 3 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Calm at 12 AM; at its strongest 6 mph, 1 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.07 inHg at 12 AM, steady over 3 hours; the same as a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 3 miles at 7 AM Thursday; 3 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
The 4 instruments nearest Duplin County Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/138 ft/2 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Goldsboro RAWSGBON7
A remote fire weather station/29.7 mi away/82 ft/54 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Kenansville 1.1 SWNC-DP-36
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.4 mi away/122 ft/14 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Mount Olive 6SEMTON7
At a cooperative observer's station/9.5 mi away/157 ft/21 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Mount Olive 6SE (MTON7), 9.5 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.