Temperature
68 F at 12 AM; 89 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 61 F at its coolest, 7 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 68F
- 12 AM
- Highest
- 89F
- 3 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 61F
- 7 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/North Carolina/Charlotte-Monroe Executive Airport
Charlotte-Monroe Executive Airport, North Carolina
Small airport in Union County, North Carolina68°
87°/63°
Clear·
Feels like 68°·Calm 1 mph SSW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 25 degrees cooler: a high of 62° after 87° today.
Now. Charlotte-Monroe Executive Airport is 68° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 86° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 52° 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 73°, and the coolest Sunday, near 60°. Rain is possible tomorrow (37%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:46 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:54 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
10Air quality
87%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
68feels68
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8763
14mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6252
37%
17mph
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
6042
13%
16mph
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
6542
13mph
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
7246
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
7348
UV 6
Thu
Oct 22
7248
UV 6
68°
87°63°
62°52°
60°42°
65°42°
72°46°
73°48°
72°48°
As of 1:00 AM in Charlotte-Monroe Executive Airport, North Carolina.
Air quality
The air at Charlotte-Monroe Executive Airport
Index 10, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Union County (NC), 6 miles off.
10Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)-17.8 mi
- Ozone10Good11 ppb5.5 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)-17.8 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide8Good9 ppb17.8 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0 ppb17.8 mi
- Carbon monoxide-0.4 ppm19.6 mi
The days ahead
Highest 71, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 47, good.
GoodModerate
- 47YesterdayOct 15
- 71TodayOct 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 28 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Charlotte-Monroe Executive 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 Charlotte-Monroe Executive Airport, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 6 miles Sat 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- EQY
- ICAO
- KEQY
- IATA
- -
- Field elevation
- 679 ft
- Serves
- Monroe
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- EQY
- Wind now
- Calm, read 16 Oct, 00:53
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 / 23 | 7,001 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 47° / 227° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Monroe_Airport_(ASOS) (EQY), Charlotte-Monroe Executive Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 64 F, the air 87% saturated; the humidity ran from 39% at 3 PM Thursday to 100% at 2 AM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 64F
- 12 AM
- Humidity now
- 87%
- Humidity, range
- 39 to 100%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
Calm at 12 AM; at its strongest 5 mph, 9 AM Thursday, and no gust reported.
- Now
- 0mph
- calm
- Strongest
- 5mph
- 9 AM Thursday
- Highest gust
- -
- none reported
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.06 inHg at 12 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.01 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.06inHg
- 12 AM
- 3 hours
- -0.01inHg
- steady
- 24 hours
- -0.01inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 6 miles at 6 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 6mi
- 6 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
Monroe_Airport_(ASOS): every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest Charlotte-Monroe Executive 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/679 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Mt Island Lake RAWSMTIN7
A remote fire weather station/32.6 mi away/715 ft/36 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Monroe 6.4 WNWNC-UN-41
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/640 ft/39 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Monroe 2 SEMORN7
At a cooperative observer's station/6.1 mi away/554 ft/125 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 Charlotte-Monroe Executive Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Indian Trailtown, 4 mi
- Monroecity, 4 mi
- Wesley Chapelvillage, 4 mi
- Lake Parkvillage, 5 mi
- Hemby Bridgetown, 6 mi
- Mineral Springstown, 6 mi
- Weddingtontown, 6 mi
- Stallingstown, 7 mi
- Unionvilletown, 7 mi
- Matthewstown, 9 mi
- Waxhawtown, 10 mi
- Wingatetown, 10 mi
Airports near Charlotte-Monroe Executive Airport
- Charlotte Douglas International AirportCLT, 23 mi
- Concord-Padgett Regional AirportJQF, 26 mi
- Anson County Airport - Jeff Cloud FieldAFP, 31 mi
- Gastonia Municipal AirportAKH, 33 mi
- Stanly County AirportVUJ, 38 mi
- Mid-Carolina Regional AirportRUQ, 44 mi
- Lincolnton Lincoln County Regional AirportIPJ, 44 mi
- Richmond County AirportRCZ, 50 mi