Temperature
67 F at 11 PM; 89 F at its warmest, 2 PM, and 60 F at its coolest, 7 AM.
- Now
- 67F
- 11 PM
- Highest
- 89F
- 2 PM
- Lowest
- 60F
- 7 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/North Carolina/Foothills Regional Airport
Foothills Regional Airport, North Carolina
Small airport in Caldwell County, North Carolina77°
84°/62°
Clear·
Feels like 77°·Calm 1 mph SW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 23 degrees cooler: a high of 61° after 84° today.
Now. Foothills Regional Airport is 77° and clear at 12 PM. The dew point is 70°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 82° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° by 7 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 61°. Rain is likely tomorrow (64%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:50 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:56 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 day is 11 hours 17 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
6UV Moderate
23Air quality
79%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
12:00 PM
77feels77
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8462
29%
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
6148
64%
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
6137
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
6639
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
7342
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
7246
UV 6
Thu
Oct 22
7148
mostly clear day
77°
84°62°
61°48°
61°37°
66°39°
73°42°
72°46°
71°48°
As of 12:00 PM in Foothills Regional Airport, North Carolina.
Air quality
The air at Foothills Regional Airport
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 PM from its reporting area, Caldwell County (NC), 10 miles off.
23Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)-15.1 mi
- Ozone23Good29 ppb9.2 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0 ppb9.2 mi
The days ahead
Highest 58, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 41, good.
GoodModerate
- 41YesterdayOct 15
- 58TodayOct 16
- 35SatOct 17
- 37SunOct 18
Smoke, the next 45 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Foothills Regional Airport
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 11 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 Foothills Regional Airport, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- MRN
- ICAO
- KMRN
- IATA
- MRN
- Field elevation
- 1,270 ft
- Serves
- Morganton
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- MRN
- Wind now
- Calm, read 16 Oct, 12:15
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03 / 21 | 5,500 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 23° / 203° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Morganton-Lenoir_Airport (MRN), Foothills Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 67 F, the air 99% saturated; the humidity ran from 50% at 2 PM to 99% at 5 AM.
- Dew point now
- 67F
- 11 PM
- Humidity now
- 99%
- Humidity, range
- 50 to 99%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
Calm at 11 PM; at its strongest 4 mph, 4 PM, and no gust reported.
- Now
- 0mph
- calm
- Strongest
- 4mph
- 4 PM
- Highest gust
- -
- none reported
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.10 inHg at 11 PM, steady over 3 hours; 0.01 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.10inHg
- 11 PM
- 3 hours
- +0.00inHg
- steady
- 24 hours
- -0.01inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 4 miles at 1 AM; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 4mi
- 1 AM
- 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 4,800 ft at 6 PM; a base was reported in 1 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 4,800ft
- 6 PM
- 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 Foothills Regional 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/1,270 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
At a river or reservoir gauge/18.3 mi away/2,651 ft/1,381 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Morganton 5.9 NNENC-BK-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.7 mi away/1,097 ft/173 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MorgantonMRGN7
At a cooperative observer's station/7.0 mi away/1,119 ft/151 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Morganton (MRGN7), 7.0 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in North Carolina
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Foothills Regional Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Gamewelltown, 3 mi
- Drexeltown, 4 mi
- Cajah's Mountaintown, 5 mi
- Valdesetown, 6 mi
- Rutherford Collegetown, 7 mi
- Morgantoncity, 7 mi
- Hudsontown, 7 mi
- Sawmillstown, 7 mi
- Lenoircity, 8 mi
- Connelly Springstown, 8 mi
- Salemcommunity, 10 mi
- Granite Fallstown, 10 mi
Airports near Foothills Regional Airport
- Hickory Regional AirportHKY, 14 mi
- Rutherford County Marchman FieldFQD, 33 mi
- Lincolnton Lincoln County Regional AirportIPJ, 34 mi
- Statesville Regional AirportSVH, 37 mi
- Shelby-Cleveland County Regional AirportEHO, 39 mi
- Wilkes County AirportUKF, 40 mi
- Ashe County AirportGEV, 44 mi
- Gastonia Municipal AirportAKH, 50 mi