Airports/North Carolina/Lincolnton Lincoln County Regional Airport
Coming up. Tomorrow is 23 degrees cooler: a high of 61° after 84° today.
Now. Lincolnton Lincoln County Regional Airport is 66° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 84° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° 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 72°, and the coolest Sunday, near 59°. Rain is possible tomorrow (41%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:48 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.
As of 12:00 AM in Lincolnton Lincoln County Regional Airport, North Carolina.
Air quality
Index 17, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Lincoln County (NC), 4 miles off.
Highest 67, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 51, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 28 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 5 miles Sat 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 / 23 | 5,700 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 47° / 227° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from Lincolnton (IPJ), Lincolnton Lincoln County Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
65 F at 11 PM Thursday; 88 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 58 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 65 F, the air 99% saturated; the humidity ran from 48% at 4 PM Thursday to 99% at 11 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Calm at 11 PM Thursday; at its strongest 3 mph, 3 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.08 inHg at 11 PM Thursday, steady over 3 hours; 0.01 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 1 mile at 10 PM Thursday; 4 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 700 ft at 10 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 1 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Lincolnton: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Lincolnton Lincoln County 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
LincolntonIPJ
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/876 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Mt Island Lake RAWSMTIN7
A remote fire weather station/11.9 mi away/715 ft/162 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Lincolnton 6.8 ENENC-LN-16
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.6 mi away/932 ft/55 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Lincolnton 2 NWLNKN7
At a cooperative observer's station/6.7 mi away/778 ft/99 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.