Kure BeachSUNN7
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.4 mi away/24 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Parks/North Carolina/Fort Fisher State Park
Fort Fisher State Park, North Carolina
State Park in New Hanover County, North CarolinaGale Warning, in full · Every severe alert
* WHAT...For the Gale Warning, north winds 20 to 30 kt with gusts up to 35 kt and seas 7 to 10 ft. For the Small Craft Advisory, north winds 20 to 30 kt and seas 7 to 10 ft expected. * WHERE...Southeast North Carolina coastal waters out 20 NM. * WHEN...For the Gale Warning, until 2 AM EDT Monday. For the Small Craft Advisory, from 2 AM Monday to 8 AM EDT Wednesday. * IMPACTS...Strong winds will cause hazardous seas which could capsize or damage vessels and reduce visibility.
Mariners should alter plans to avoid these hazardous conditions. Remain in port, seek safe harbor, alter course, and/or secure the vessel for hazardous conditions.
68°
67°/46°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 68°·Moderate breeze 15 mph NNE
Alert. A Gale Warning is in force for Fort Fisher State Park until 2 AM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Fort Fisher State Park is 68° and partly cloudy at 3 PM. The dew point is 50°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northeast at 15 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 69° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. Highs stay close to 71° all week. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:34 PM. The Moon is a first quarter, 52% lit, and sets at 12:42 AM after midnight. 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 bright Moon hides all but the brightest of them. 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.
4UV Moderate
32Air quality
53%Humidity
51%Cloud
Now
3:00 PM
68feels68
15mph
Today
Oct 18
6746
19mph
Mon
Oct 19
6949
16mph
Tue
Oct 20
7250
14mph
Wed
Oct 21
7151
13mph
Thu
Oct 22
7049
clear day
Fri
Oct 23
7149
clear day
Sat
Oct 24
7052
16mph
68°
67°46°
69°49°
72°50°
71°51°
70°49°
71°49°
70°52°
As of 3:00 PM in Fort Fisher State Park, North Carolina.
Air quality
The air at Fort Fisher State Park
Index 32, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 PM from its reporting area, New Hanover County (NC), 21 miles off.
32Good
- Ozone32Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 23, good.
GoodModerate
- 23YesterdayOct 17
- 37TodayOct 18
- 40MonOct 19
- 40TueOct 20
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Tue 8 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Fort Fisher State Park
0.01 in in the last 24 hours, 0.06 in over the last 3 days, to Sun 2 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.01in
- Last 3 days
- 0.06in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 17%
Visibility
How far you can see at Fort Fisher State Park, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Tue 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.9 sq mi
- Height at its point
- -
- County
- New Hanover County
- State
- North Carolina
- Latitude
- 33.9659° N
- Longitude
- 77.9198° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Fort Fisher State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/9.2 mi away/26 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW7353FW7353
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.0 mi away/20 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Kure Beach 0.1 NNENC-NH-129
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.3 mi away/23 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Wilmington 7 SEWLMN7
At a cooperative observer's station/12.4 mi away/20 ft/- ft from 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 Wilmington 7 SE (WLMN7), 12.4 miles from here, read 18 Oct, 07:30. measured daily
Elsewhere in North Carolina
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Fort Fisher State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Kure Beachtown, 3 mi
- Carolina Beachtown, 5 mi
- Southportcity, 6 mi
- Sea Breezecommunity, 7 mi
- Bald Head Islandvillage, 8 mi
- Caswell Beachtown, 8 mi
- Boiling Spring Lakescity, 9 mi
- St. Jamestown, 11 mi
- Myrtle Grovecommunity, 11 mi
- Silver Lakecommunity, 12 mi
- Oak Islandtown, 12 mi
- Boliviatown, 15 mi