In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/966 ft/- ft from here
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Golf courses/North Carolina/Rock Barn
Coming up. Tomorrow is 24 degrees cooler: a high of 60° after 84° today.
Now. Rock Barn is 66° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 83° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 49° 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 71°, and the coolest Sunday, near 59°. Rain is possible tomorrow (34%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:48 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:54 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 17 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Rock Barn, North Carolina.
Air quality
Index 47, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Catawba County (NC), 9 miles off.
Highest 67, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 52, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Rock Barn, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/966 ft/- ft from here
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At an airfield/12.1 mi away/1,188 ft/- ft from here
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Taylorsville RAWSTAYN7
A remote fire weather station/12.4 mi away/1,181 ft/- ft from here
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measured daily2 instruments
Conover 1.2 NENC-CT-60
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/1,006 ft/- ft from here
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Oxford Hydro StationOXFN7
At a cooperative observer's station/6.1 mi away/840 ft/- ft from here
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Snow on the ground
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.