Citizen station FW8439FW8439
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/3,742 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Golf courses/North Carolina/Elk River Club
Coming up. Tomorrow is 27 degrees cooler: a high of 51° after 78° today.
Now. Elk River Club is 59° and partly cloudy at 5 AM. The dew point is 62°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the southwest at 1 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 76° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 43° by 7 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 Wednesday, near 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 51°. Rain is likely tomorrow (76%). The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:51 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 AM in Elk River Club, North Carolina.
Air quality
Index 5, good, led by ozone. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Avery County (NC), 6 miles off.
Highest 58, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 37, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Fog: visibility falls to 0.9 miles Sat 12 AM, under a mile for 2 hours.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Elk River Club, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station FW8439FW8439
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/3,742 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Watauga River Near Sugar Grove03479000
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.0 mi away/2,608 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/14.0 mi away/3,146 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Banner ElkBELN7
At a cooperative observer's station/1.2 mi away/3,704 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Beech Mountain 1.0 SENC-WT-62
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.2 mi away/4,488 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Banner Elk (BELN7), 1.2 miles from here, read 14 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.