Temperature
64 F at 3 AM; 88 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 61 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 64F
- 3 AM
- Highest
- 88F
- 3 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 61F
- 6 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/North Carolina/Statesville Regional Airport
Coming up. Tomorrow is 24 degrees cooler: a high of 60° after 84° today.
Now. Statesville Regional Airport is 64° and clear at 4 AM. The dew point is 63°, 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 50° by 8 AM, with some cloud. 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 Tuesday, near 71°, and the coolest Sunday, near 59°. Rain is possible tomorrow (44%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:47 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:53 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.
As of 4:00 AM in Statesville Regional Airport, North Carolina.
Air quality
Index 5, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Alexander County (NC), 16 miles off.
Highest 58, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 42, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 4 miles Sat 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 / 28 | 7,003 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 97° / 277° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from Statesville (SVH), Statesville Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
64 F at 3 AM; 88 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 61 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 64 F, the air 100% saturated; the humidity ran from 45% at 4 PM Thursday to 100% at 2 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Calm at 3 AM; at its strongest 4 mph, 4 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.05 inHg at 3 AM, falling 0.03 inHg over 3 hours; 0.04 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 7 miles at 2 AM; 7 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 12,000 ft at 7 AM 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
Statesville: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Statesville 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
StatesvilleSVH
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/965 ft/3 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Taylorsville RAWSTAYN7
A remote fire weather station/14.4 mi away/1,181 ft/213 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Statesville 3.2 WNC-IR-38
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.1 mi away/863 ft/105 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
StatesvilleSTVN7
At a cooperative observer's station/5.2 mi away/804 ft/164 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Statesville (STVN7), 5.2 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.