Citizen station KN4QD-13KN4QD-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.6 mi away/3,401 ft/840 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Parks/North Carolina/Gorges State Park
Gorges State Park, North Carolina
State Park in Transylvania County, North Carolina65°
80°/60°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 65°·Calm 1 mph SSW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 25 degrees cooler: a high of 55° after 80° today.
Now. Gorges State Park is 65° and mostly clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 77° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 43° 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 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:56 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:03 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
6Air quality
95%Humidity
23%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
65feels65
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 16
8060
12mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
5542
16%
13mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
5935
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
6538
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
7041
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
7045
UV 7
Thu
Oct 22
7045
UV 7
65°
80°60°
55°42°
59°35°
65°38°
70°41°
70°45°
70°45°
As of 12:00 AM in Gorges State Park, North Carolina.
Air quality
The air at Gorges State Park
Index 6, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Macon County (NC), 28 miles off.
6Good
- Ozone6Good33 ppb21.6 mi
The days ahead
Highest 58, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 22, good.
GoodModerate
- 22YesterdayOct 14
- 58TodayOct 16
- 35SatOct 17
- 37SunOct 18
Smoke, the next 45 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Gorges State Park
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. 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 Gorges State Park, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 8 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 12 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 2,561 ft
- County
- Transylvania County
- State
- North Carolina
- Latitude
- 35.0940° N
- Longitude
- 82.9399° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Gorges State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Highland Raw SiteHGLN7
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.7 mi away/4,045 ft/1,484 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Sylva24A
At an airfield/21.5 mi away/2,794 ft/233 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Asheville 13 S53878
At a climate reference station/31.0 mi away/2,103 ft/458 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Lake Toxaway 2 SWLKTN7
At a cooperative observer's station/1.6 mi away/3,087 ft/526 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Lake Toxaway 1.3 WNWNC-TR-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.8 mi away/3,229 ft/668 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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.
Near Gorges State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.