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temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beaches/North Carolina/Poplar Point Beach
Poplar Point Beach, North Carolina
Beach in Chatham County, North Carolina68°
87°/62°
Fog·
Feels like 68°·Calm 1 mph ESE
Coming up. Tomorrow is 27 degrees cooler: a high of 60° after 87° today.
Now. Poplar Point Beach is 68° and fog at 1 AM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 87° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 53° by 8 AM, with some cloud. 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. Air quality is moderate (index 57): 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 59°. Rain is likely tomorrow (63%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:39 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:45 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
57Air quality
96%Humidity
61%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
68feels68
now, fog
Today
Oct 16
8762
31%
12mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6051
63%
15mph
Sun
Oct 18
5940
23%
14mph
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
6441
12%
13mph
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
7045
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
7047
UV 6
Thu
Oct 22
6947
mostly clear day
68°
87°62°
60°51°
59°40°
64°41°
70°45°
70°47°
69°47°
As of 1:00 AM in Poplar Point Beach, North Carolina.
Air quality
The air at Poplar Point Beach
Index 57, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Wake County (NC), 17 miles off.
57Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)57Moderate14.3 mi
- Ozone26Good24 ppb14.3 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)22Good14.3 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide6Good6.6 ppb15.1 mi
- Carbon monoxide-0.4 ppm15.1 mi
The days ahead
Highest 71, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 59, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 59YesterdayOct 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 Poplar Point Beach
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 Poplar Point Beach, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 3 miles Fri 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Beach
- County
- Chatham County
- State
- North Carolina
- Latitude
- 35.7244° N
- Longitude
- 79.0210° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Poplar Point Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station GW3995GW3995
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.8 mi away/289 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/11.2 mi away/240 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Durham 11 W03758
At a climate reference station/17.4 mi away/562 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Apex - Chatham WTPCHMN7
At a water treatment plant/1.3 mi away/294 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Pittsboro 6.3 ENC-CH-85
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.3 mi away/337 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in North Carolina
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Poplar Point Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Fearrington Villagecommunity, 6 mi
- Moncurecommunity, 7 mi
- Governors Clubcommunity, 8 mi
- Apextown, 8 mi
- Pittsborotown, 8 mi
- Briar Chapelcommunity, 9 mi
- Governors Villagecommunity, 9 mi
- Carolina Meadowscommunity, 9 mi
- Holly Springstown, 12 mi
- Carytown, 12 mi
- Morrisvilletown, 13 mi
- Carrborotown, 14 mi
Beaches near Poplar Point Beach
- Seaforth Beachunder 1 mi
- White Oak Beach1 mi
- Ebenezer Church Beach1 mi
- Parker's Creek Beach2 mi
- Crosswinds Beach2 mi
- Vista Point Beach2 mi
- Haw river beach4 mi
- Bobbit's Hole23 mi