Parks/North Carolina/Mount Mitchell State Park

Mount Mitchell State Park, North Carolina

State Park in Yancey County, North Carolina

53° 66°/49°

Mostly clear· Feels like 53°·Calm 0 mph S

Coming up. Tomorrow is 27 degrees cooler: a high of 39° after 66° today.

Now. Mount Mitchell State Park is 53° and mostly clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 53°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. The air is calm.

Today and tonight. It warms to about 64° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 8, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.

The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 55°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 39°. Rain is possible tomorrow (40%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.

The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:52 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:58 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.

0UV Low

32Air quality

93%Humidity

25%Cloud

Now

2:00 AM

53feels53

Today

Oct 16

6649

22%

14mph

UV 8

Sat

Oct 17

3932

40%

15mph

UV 7

Sun

Oct 18

4523

UV 8

Mon

Oct 19

4926

UV 7

Tue

Oct 20

5530

UV 7

Wed

Oct 21

5534

UV 7

Thu

Oct 22

5534

UV 7

53°

66°49°

39°32°

45°23°

49°26°

55°30°

55°34°

As of 2:00 AM in Mount Mitchell State Park, North Carolina.

Air quality

The air at Mount Mitchell State Park

Index 32, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Mitchell County (NC), 16 miles off.

32Good

Fine particles (PM2.5)32Good13.9 mi
Ozone-41 ppb1.7 mi
Coarse particles (PM10)-22.1 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 43 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.

Precipitation

What has fallen at Mount Mitchell State Park

None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 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 Mount Mitchell State Park, the next 43 hours

Dense fog: visibility falls to 0 miles Sat 1 AM, under a mile for 7 hours.

Park

Designation: State Park
Area: 7.4 sq mi
Height at its point: 6,450 ft
County: Yancey County
State: North Carolina
Latitude: 35.7950° N
Longitude: 82.2569° W

What is measuring near here

The 6 instruments nearest Mount Mitchell State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.6 miles away.

measured now4 instruments

Busick RAWSBSKN7

A remote fire weather station/4.9 mi away/3,730 ft/2,720 ft below here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

Citizen station FW7281FW7281

In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.2 mi away/2,344 ft/4,106 ft below here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

Asheville 8 SSW53877

At a climate reference station/28.9 mi away/2,151 ft/4,299 ft below here

temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip

Asheville_Municipal_(ASOS)AVL

At an airfield/29.6 mi away/2,169 ft/4,281 ft below here