Parks/North Carolina/Pisgah View State Park

Pisgah View State Park, North Carolina

State Park in Buncombe County, North Carolina

58° 78°/57°

Fog· Feels like 58°·Light air 2 mph WNW

Coming up. Tomorrow is 26 degrees cooler: a high of 52° after 78° today.

Now. Pisgah View State Park is 58° and fog at 7 AM. The dew point is 59°, so the air feels a little humid. Light air from the west-northwest at 2 mph.

Today and tonight. It warms to about 75° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 40° 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 Thursday, near 69°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 52°. Rain is possible tomorrow (33%). The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 32°.

The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:55 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:02 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 18 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.

0UV Low

2Air quality

100%Humidity

71%Cloud

Now

7:00 AM

58feels58

Today

Oct 16

7857

17%

14mph

UV 7

Sat

Oct 17

5239

33%

16mph

UV 7

Sun

Oct 18

5732

UV 7

Mon

Oct 19

6234

UV 7

Tue

Oct 20

6739

UV 7

Wed

Oct 21

6841

UV 7

Thu

Oct 22

6943

UV 6

58°

78°57°

52°39°

57°32°

62°34°

67°39°

68°41°

69°43°

As of 7:00 AM in Pisgah View State Park, North Carolina.

Air quality

The air at Pisgah View State Park

Index 2, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Haywood County (NC), 13 miles off.

2Good

Fine particles (PM2.5)-14.1 mi
Ozone2Good42 ppb7 mi
Coarse particles (PM10)-14.1 mi

The days ahead

Highest 58, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 33, good.

GoodModerate

33YesterdayOct 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 17 or under.

Precipitation

What has fallen at Pisgah View 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 Pisgah View State Park, the next 44 hours

Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Sat 1 AM.

Park

Designation: State Park
Area: 0.78 sq mi
Height at its point: 3,150 ft
County: Buncombe County
State: North Carolina
Latitude: 35.4841° N
Longitude: 82.7809° W

What is measuring near here

The 6 instruments nearest Pisgah View State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.7 miles away.

measured now4 instruments

East Fork Pigeon River Near Canton03456500

At a river or reservoir gauge/5.2 mi away/2,674 ft/476 ft below here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

Citizen station FW2588FW2588

In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.1 mi away/2,221 ft/929 ft below here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

Asheville 8 SSW53877

At a climate reference station/9.6 mi away/2,151 ft/999 ft below here

temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip

Asheville_Municipal_(ASOS)AVL

At an airfield/14.2 mi away/2,169 ft/981 ft below here