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 Recreation Area
Fort Fisher State Recreation Area, North Carolina
* WHAT...North winds 15 to 25 kt with gusts up to 30 kt and seas 6 to 9 ft. * WHERE...Southeast North Carolina coastal waters out 20 NM. * WHEN...Until 8 AM EDT Wednesday. * IMPACTS...Conditions will be hazardous to small craft.
Inexperienced mariners, especially those operating smaller vessels, should avoid navigating in hazardous conditions.
66°
73°/49°
Clear·
Feels like 66°·Gentle breeze 11 mph N
Alert. A Small Craft Advisory is in force for Fort Fisher State Recreation Area until 8 AM Wednesday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Fort Fisher State Recreation Area is 66° and clear at 4 PM. The dew point is 50°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 11 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 51° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. Highs stay close to 72° all week. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:33 PM. The Moon is a waxing gibbous, 61% lit, and sets at 1:42 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 14 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
2UV Low
38Air quality
52%Humidity
7%Cloud
Now
4:00 PM
66feels66
now, clear
Today
Oct 19
7349
15mph
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
7350
13mph
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
7153
13mph
Thu
Oct 22
7149
clear day
Fri
Oct 23
7150
12mph
Sat
Oct 24
7152
15mph
Sun
Oct 25
7354
16mph
66°
73°49°
73°50°
71°53°
71°49°
71°50°
71°52°
73°54°
As of 4:00 PM in Fort Fisher State Recreation Area, North Carolina.
Air quality
The air at Fort Fisher State Recreation Area
Index 38, good, led by fine particles. Read at 3 PM from its reporting area, New Hanover County (NC), 21 miles off.
38Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)38Good-
- Ozone31Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)28Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Thu Oct 22, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 31, good.
GoodModerate
- 31YesterdayOct 18
- 40TodayOct 19
- 40TueOct 20
- 40WedOct 21
- 40ThuOct 22
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Wed 8 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Fort Fisher State Recreation Area
None in the last 24 hours; 0.06 in over the last 3 days, to Mon 3 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.06in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Fort Fisher State Recreation Area, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Wed 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Recreation Area
- Area
- 0.74 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 Recreation Area, 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 19 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in North Carolina
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Fort Fisher State Recreation Area
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