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At a river or reservoir gauge/11.8 mi away/2,656 ft/778 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Parks/North Carolina/Elk Knob State Park
Elk Knob State Park, North Carolina
State Park in Ashe County, North CarolinaSpecial Weather Statement, in full
Pockets of fog, which, will be dense at times will be present through the morning commute across the area. This may lead to difficult driving conditions as visibilities will be reduced down to 1/4 mile or less in localized areas. Drivers are recommended to leave early to account for slow commute times this morning and only use low beam headlights.
58°
75°/58°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 58°·Light air 2 mph WSW
Alert. A Special Weather Statement is in force for Elk Knob State Park until 8 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely tomorrow morning, from about 6 AM (51%).
Now. Elk Knob State Park is 58° and mostly clear at 6 AM. The dew point is 59°, so the air feels a little humid. Light air from the west-southwest at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 73° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 40° 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 Wednesday, near 64°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 48°. Rain is likely tomorrow (71%). The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:49 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 day is 11 hours 16 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
35Air quality
97%Humidity
26%Cloud
Now
6:00 AM
58feels58
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 16
7558
27%
17mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
4839
71%
18mph
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
5330
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
5832
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
6337
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
6440
UV 6
Thu
Oct 22
6441
UV 6
58°
75°58°
48°39°
53°30°
58°32°
63°37°
64°40°
64°41°
As of 6:00 AM in Elk Knob State Park, North Carolina.
Air quality
The air at Elk Knob State Park
Index 35, good, led by ozone. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, North Ridges (NC), 21 miles off.
35Good
- Ozone35Good-
The days ahead
Highest 71, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 35, good.
GoodModerate
- 35YesterdayOct 15
- 71TodayOct 16
- 35SatOct 17
- 37SunOct 18
Smoke, the next 45 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Elk Knob State Park
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 4 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 Elk Knob State Park, the next 45 hours
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0 miles Sat 2 AM, under a mile for 6 hours.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 6.48 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 3,434 ft
- County
- Ashe County
- State
- North Carolina
- Latitude
- 36.3876° N
- Longitude
- 81.6713° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Elk Knob State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station EW6072EW6072
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.3 mi away/3,282 ft/152 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/13.0 mi away/3,146 ft/288 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Creston 2.8 SWNC-AS-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.4 mi away/3,040 ft/394 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Boone 1SEBOON7
At a cooperative observer's station/12.3 mi away/3,278 ft/156 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Boone 1SE (BOON7), 12.3 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:15. measured daily
Elsewhere in North Carolina
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Elk Knob State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Cove Creekcommunity, 10 mi
- West Jeffersontown, 10 mi
- Jeffersontown, 11 mi
- Boonetown, 12 mi
- Lansingtown, 12 mi
- Valle Cruciscommunity, 14 mi
- Appalachian Ski Mountainski area, 15 mi
- Foscoecommunity, 17 mi
- Beech Mountainski area, 17 mi
- Beech Mountaintown, 17 mi
- Blowing Rocktown, 18 mi
- Seven Devilstown, 18 mi