Temperature
70 F at 12 AM; 86 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 62 F at its coolest, 7 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 70F
- 12 AM
- Highest
- 86F
- 3 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 62F
- 7 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/North Carolina/Hickory Regional Airport
Hickory Regional Airport, North Carolina
Medium airport in Catawba County, North Carolina69°
83°/62°
Clear·
Feels like 69°·Calm 0 mph
Coming up. Tomorrow is 24 degrees cooler: a high of 59° after 83° today.
Now. Hickory Regional Airport is 69° 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 83° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour. Air quality is moderate (index 51): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 70°, and the coolest Sunday, near 58°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:49 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:55 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 17 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
51Air quality
88%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
69feels69
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8362
20%
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
5948
28%
15mph
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
5840
13mph
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
6440
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
7044
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
7046
UV 6
Thu
Oct 22
6946
UV 6
69°
83°62°
59°48°
58°40°
64°40°
70°44°
70°46°
69°46°
As of 1:00 AM in Hickory Regional Airport, North Carolina.
Air quality
The air at Hickory Regional Airport
Index 51, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Catawba County (NC), 4 miles off.
51Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)51Moderate1.6 mi
- Ozone-10 ppb15.7 mi
The days ahead
Highest 67, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 52, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 52YesterdayOct 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 Hickory 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 Hickory Regional Airport, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- HKY
- ICAO
- KHKY
- IATA
- HKY
- Field elevation
- 1,190 ft
- Serves
- Hickory
- Kind
- Medium airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- HKY
- Wind now
- Calm, read 16 Oct, 00:53
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06 / 24 | 6,401 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 55° / 235° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Hickory_Regional_(ASOS) (HKY), Hickory Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 66 F, the air 87% saturated; the humidity ran from 53% at 1 PM Thursday to 97% at 7 AM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 66F
- 12 AM
- Humidity now
- 87%
- Humidity, range
- 53 to 97%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
2 mph from the south southwest at 12 AM; at its strongest 6 mph, 6 AM Thursday, and no gust reported.
- Now
- 2mph
- from the south southwest
- Strongest
- 6mph
- 6 AM Thursday
- Highest gust
- -
- none reported
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.07 inHg at 12 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.03 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.07inHg
- 12 AM
- 3 hours
- -0.02inHg
- steady
- 24 hours
- -0.03inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 9 miles at 7 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 9mi
- 7 AM Thursday
- Hours under a mile
- 0
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Cloud base
The lowest cloud base came down to 12,000 ft at 8 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 1 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 12,000ft
- 8 AM Thursday
- Hours with a base reported
- 1
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 4 instruments nearest Hickory Regional Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.0 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,188 ft/2 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Taylorsville RAWSTAYN7
A remote fire weather station/18.4 mi away/1,181 ft/9 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Hildebran 1.2 NNENC-BK-36
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.4 mi away/1,136 ft/54 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Rhodhiss Hydro PlantRHON7
At a cooperative observer's station/3.5 mi away/1,020 ft/170 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 Hickory Regional Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Long Viewtown, 1 mi
- Hildebrantown, 2 mi
- Hickorycity, 3 mi
- Rhodhisstown, 3 mi
- Northlakescommunity, 3 mi
- Brookfordtown, 4 mi
- Icardcommunity, 4 mi
- Mountain Viewcommunity, 5 mi
- Granite Fallstown, 5 mi
- Connelly Springstown, 6 mi
- St. Stephenscommunity, 7 mi
- Bethlehemcommunity, 7 mi
Airports near Hickory Regional Airport
- Foothills Regional AirportMRN, 14 mi
- Lincolnton Lincoln County Regional AirportIPJ, 22 mi
- Statesville Regional AirportSVH, 24 mi
- Shelby-Cleveland County Regional AirportEHO, 36 mi
- Wilkes County AirportUKF, 37 mi
- Rutherford County Marchman FieldFQD, 38 mi
- Gastonia Municipal AirportAKH, 40 mi
- Charlotte Douglas International AirportCLT, 44 mi