Beaches/North Carolina/Riverside Park Beach Access

Riverside Park Beach Access, North Carolina

Beach in Mitchell County, North Carolina

65° 80°/60°

Clear· Feels like 65°·Calm 1 mph SSE

Coming up. Tomorrow is 26 degrees cooler: a high of 54° after 80° today.

Now. Riverside Park Beach Access is 65° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.

Today and tonight. It warms to about 79° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 45° 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 Tuesday, near 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. Rain is possible tomorrow (36%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 35°.

The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:51 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:57 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 16 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.

0UV Low

43Air quality

98%Humidity

8%Cloud

Now

12:00 AM

65feels65

Today

Oct 16

8060

23%

13mph

UV 7

Sat

Oct 17

5444

36%

13mph

UV 6

Sun

Oct 18

5835

UV 7

Mon

Oct 19

6238

UV 7

Tue

Oct 20

6842

UV 6

Wed

Oct 21

6845

UV 6

Thu

Oct 22

6846

UV 6

65°

80°60°

54°44°

58°35°

62°38°

68°42°

68°45°

68°46°

As of 12:00 AM in Riverside Park Beach Access, North Carolina.

Air quality

The air at Riverside Park Beach Access

Index 43, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Mitchell County (NC), 9 miles off.

43Good

Fine particles (PM2.5)43Good0.5 mi
Ozone-5 ppb8.8 mi

The days ahead

Highest 58, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 44, good.

GoodModerate

44YesterdayOct 15
58TodayOct 16
35SatOct 17
37SunOct 18

Smoke, the next 45 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.

Precipitation

What has fallen at Riverside Park Beach Access

None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. 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 Riverside Park Beach Access, the next 45 hours

Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 3 miles Fri 7 PM.

Beach

County: Mitchell County
State: North Carolina
Latitude: 35.9143° N
Longitude: 82.0670° W

What is measuring near here

The 5 instruments nearest Riverside Park Beach Access, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.5 miles away.

measured now3 instruments

North Cove Usfs StationNCVN7

At a river or reservoir gauge/9.9 mi away/2,651 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

Citizen station FW8439FW8439

In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.0 mi away/3,742 ft/- ft from here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

Morganton-Lenoir_AirportMRN

At an airfield/26.4 mi away/1,270 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Spruce Pine 1.5 SSWNC-ML-16