Citizen station FW7442FW7442
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.4 mi away/1,367 ft/922 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Parks/North Carolina/South Mountains State Park
South Mountains State Park, North Carolina
State Park in Burke County, North Carolina63°
80°/58°
Clear·
Feels like 63°·Calm 0 mph
Coming up. Tomorrow is 24 degrees cooler: a high of 56° after 80° today.
Now. South Mountains State Park is 63° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 80° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 45° 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. Air quality is moderate (index 54): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:50 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
54Air quality
96%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
63feels63
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8058
13%
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
5644
22%
12mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
5636
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
6136
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
6740
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
6842
UV 7
Thu
Oct 22
6743
UV 7
63°
80°58°
56°44°
56°36°
61°36°
67°40°
68°42°
67°43°
As of 1:00 AM in South Mountains State Park, North Carolina.
Air quality
The air at South Mountains State Park
Index 54, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Catawba County (NC), 24 miles off.
54Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)54Moderate21.8 mi
The days ahead
Highest 67, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 44, good.
GoodModerate
- 44YesterdayOct 15
- 67TodayOct 16
- 35SatOct 17
- 37SunOct 18
Smoke, the next 44 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at South Mountains State Park
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 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 South Mountains State Park, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 5 miles Sat 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 33 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 2,289 ft
- County
- Burke County
- State
- North Carolina
- Latitude
- 35.6048° N
- Longitude
- 81.7174° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest South Mountains State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Raingage At Fire Station 56 At Ramsey353459081334545
At a fire lookout or ranger station/8.8 mi away/1,291 ft/998 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/16.0 mi away/1,270 ft/1,019 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Morganton 5.4 SSWNC-BK-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.1 mi away/1,157 ft/1,132 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MorgantonMRGN7
At a cooperative observer's station/9.1 mi away/1,119 ft/1,170 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Morganton (MRGN7), 9.1 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in North Carolina
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near South Mountains State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Salemcommunity, 7 mi
- Casartown, 9 mi
- Glen Alpinetown, 9 mi
- Morgantoncity, 10 mi
- Drexeltown, 12 mi
- Valdesetown, 13 mi
- Nebocommunity, 13 mi
- Polkvillecity, 14 mi
- Belwoodtown, 14 mi
- Rutherford Collegetown, 15 mi
- Glenwoodcommunity, 15 mi
- Connelly Springstown, 16 mi