BeaufortNDBC-BFTN7
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.3 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Parks/North Carolina/Fort Macon State Park
Fort Macon State Park, North Carolina
State Park in Carteret County, North CarolinaSpecial Weather Statement, in full
Patchy dense fog with visibilities of one quarter mile or less is possible early this morning. Conditions should rapidly improve after 8 AM. For those traveling, please allow extra time to reach your destination, and prepare for sudden reductions to visibility at times.
71°
81°/70°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 71°·Light air 3 mph WSW
Alert. A Special Weather Statement is in force for Fort Macon 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 9 AM (86%).
Now. Fort Macon State Park is 71° and partly cloudy at 7 AM. The dew point is 70°, so the air feels oppressive. Light air from the west-southwest at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 80° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 66° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 66°. Rain is likely tomorrow (91%). Rain is possible Sunday (47%) and Monday (46%). The windiest day is Sunday, with wind to 29 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:31 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:39 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 19 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
6Air quality
100%Humidity
45%Cloud
Now
7:00 AM
71feels71
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 16
8170
17mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6960
91%
26mph
Sun
Oct 18
6652
47%
29mph
Mon
Oct 19
6956
46%
22mph
Tue
Oct 20
7155
29%
18mph
Wed
Oct 21
7156
18%
19mph
Thu
Oct 22
7157
21%
17mph
71°
81°70°
69°60°
66°52°
69°56°
71°55°
71°56°
71°57°
As of 7:00 AM in Fort Macon State Park, North Carolina.
Air quality
The air at Fort Macon State Park
Index 6, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Carteret County (NC), 9 miles off.
6Good
- Ozone6Good-
The days ahead
Highest 58, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 44, good.
GoodModerate
- 44YesterdayOct 15
- 58TodayOct 16
- 35SatOct 17
- 37SunOct 18
Smoke, the next 44 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Fort Macon State Park
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 6 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 Fort Macon State Park, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 4 miles Fri 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.69 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 5 ft
- County
- Carteret County
- State
- North Carolina
- Latitude
- 34.6991° N
- Longitude
- 76.6803° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Fort Macon State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station GW0457GW0457
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/7 ft/2 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Smith_Field/Beaufort_(ASOS)MRH
At an airfield/2.6 mi away/10 ft/5 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Beaufort 0.5 WNC-CR-139
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.9 mi away/7 ft/2 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Atlantic BeachATBN7
At a cooperative observer's station/3.3 mi away/7 ft/2 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in North Carolina
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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