Parks/North Carolina/Merchants Millpond State Park

Merchants Millpond State Park, North Carolina

State Park in Gates County, North Carolina

66° 78°/68°

Overcast· Feels like 66°·Light air 1 mph ENE

Coming up. Rain is likely Saturday night, from about 3 AM (68%).

Now. Merchants Millpond State Park is 66° and overcast at 10 PM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the east-northeast at 1 mph.

Today and tonight. Tonight holds near 66°, with some cloud.

The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 87°, and the coolest Saturday, near 60°. Rain is likely Saturday (84%). Rain is possible tomorrow (40%).

The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 18 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.

0UV Low

36Air quality

89%Humidity

99%Cloud

Now

10:00 PM

66feels66

Today

Oct 15

7868

Fri

Oct 16

8764

40%

UV 6

Sat

Oct 17

6053

84%

14mph

Sun

Oct 18

6147

28%

16mph

Mon

Oct 19

6550

23%

14mph

Tue

Oct 20

6852

14%

Wed

Oct 21

6853

14%

12mph

66°

78°68°

87°64°

60°53°

61°47°

65°50°

68°52°

68°53°

As of 10:00 PM in Merchants Millpond State Park, North Carolina.

Air quality

The air at Merchants Millpond State Park

Index 36, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Hampton Roads (VA), 35 miles off.

36Good

Fine particles (PM2.5)36Good-
Ozone24Good-
Coarse particles (PM10)18Good-

The days ahead

Highest 53, moderate, Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 56, moderate.

GoodModerate

56YesterdayOct 14
50TodayOct 15
53FriOct 16

Smoke, the next 41 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Sat 2 PM: the index from smoke stays at 28 or under.

Precipitation

What has fallen at Merchants Millpond State Park

None in the last 3 days, to Thu 9 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 Merchants Millpond State Park, the next 41 hours

Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.2 miles Fri 4 AM, under a mile for 1 hour.

Park

Designation: State Park
Area: 5 sq mi
Height at its point: 36 ft
County: Gates County
State: North Carolina
Latitude: 36.4500° N
Longitude: 76.6972° W

What is measuring near here

The 5 instruments nearest Merchants Millpond State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.9 miles away.

measured now3 instruments

Old Swamp Road - Joyce CreekJYCN7

At a river or reservoir gauge/22.4 mi away/42 ft/6 ft above here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

Citizen station FW2560FW2560

In a volunteer observer's own ground/24.6 mi away/13 ft/23 ft below here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

Ahoskie_Tri_CouASJ

At an airfield/28.3 mi away/69 ft/33 ft above here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Gatesville 3.7 ENENC-GT-7