At a river or reservoir gauge/6.5 mi away/2,651 ft/1,456 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Parks/North Carolina/Lake James State Park
Lake James State Park, North Carolina
State Park in Burke County, North Carolina75°
85°/63°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 75°·Calm 1 mph WSW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 25 degrees cooler: a high of 60° after 85° today.
Now. Lake James State Park is 75° and partly cloudy at 11 AM. The dew point is 68°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 84° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° by 7 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 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. Rain is possible tomorrow (46%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:51 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:57 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 17 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
4UV Moderate
15Air quality
100%Humidity
42%Cloud
Now
11:00 AM
75feels75
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 16
8563
13%
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6049
46%
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
6240
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
6742
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
7346
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
7350
UV 6
Thu
Oct 22
7250
mostly clear day
75°
85°63°
60°49°
62°40°
67°42°
73°46°
73°50°
72°50°
As of 11:00 AM in Lake James State Park, North Carolina.
Air quality
The air at Lake James State Park
Index 15, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 AM from its reporting area, Caldwell County (NC), 22 miles off.
15Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)-15.9 mi
- Ozone15Good10 ppb15.9 mi
The days ahead
Highest 58, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 41, good.
GoodModerate
- 41YesterdayOct 15
- 58TodayOct 16
- 35SatOct 17
- 37SunOct 18
Smoke, the next 40 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Lake James State Park
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 10 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 Lake James State Park, the next 40 hours
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 4 miles Sat 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 5.92 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,195 ft
- County
- Burke County
- State
- North Carolina
- Latitude
- 35.7493° N
- Longitude
- 81.8554° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Lake James State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station FW8634FW8634
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.5 mi away/1,360 ft/165 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/14.6 mi away/1,270 ft/75 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
BridgewaterBRWN7
At a cooperative observer's station/1.1 mi away/1,100 ft/95 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Morganton 8.5 WNWNC-BK-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.6 mi away/1,258 ft/63 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in North Carolina
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Lake James State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Glen Alpinetown, 4 mi
- Nebocommunity, 4 mi
- Morgantoncity, 9 mi
- Salemcommunity, 9 mi
- Marioncity, 9 mi
- West Marioncommunity, 11 mi
- Glenwoodcommunity, 12 mi
- Drexeltown, 14 mi
- Gamewelltown, 16 mi
- Valdesetown, 17 mi
- Spruce Pinetown, 17 mi
- Rutherford Collegetown, 18 mi